Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Restaurants A lonely dinner on North Highland
Posted by Cliff Bostock @cliffbostock on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:54 PM
I was surprised to find a very staid menu. Starters include dishes like pimento cheese, calamari, mussels and a pork empanada. Soups, salads and sandwiches take up most of the menu and there are only five entrees. I chose the 10-oz. grilled pork chop topped with crimini and shiitake mushrooms over an onion jus with corn-bacon pudding on the side (right photo).
Everything on my plate was delicious, but I'm mystified why there's nothing more adventurous on the menu. Perhaps they're offering a prosaic alternative to the esoterica emerging from the kitchen of Pura Vida, a few doors down...and quite crowded when I walked by.
(Photos by Cliff Bostock)
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"....Everything on my plate was delicious, but I'm mystified why there's nothing more adventurous on the menu...."
Maybe "everything on my plate was delicious" is good enough?
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Ummm, well perhaps because there are millions of people that are out of a job or have a shrinking retirement or are scared and the idea of “adventures dining” in not on the radar screen. Perhaps in the risky restaurant business restaurants want to serve known staples because their income and inventory is perishable.
I would mostly just go there for cocktails with friends; the food was always incidental. Good, but nothing to write home about.
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