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| - After all the negative reviews, I was honestly kind of dreading going when my friends asked us out to dine there. Cafe Luna changed my mind that night. Now, honestly, I'd been to them back when they were on campus and thought it was homier and the food was actually a bit better, but we still had a really nice night at the new location and a really good meal. Important note, they have entrees of course, but you can get by easily on their tasty tapas menu.
Here's what we had:
Mushroom and something crostini - the crostini was a little crispier than I would have preferred and it was quite salty, but my husband ate all of his and he hates mushrooms.
Walnut crusted goat cheese balls - WOW were these good. The cheese was gooey and the bread perfect. It was drizzled with just a smidge of honey that combined perfectly with it and everything oozed and spread over the bread. YUM
Flank steak over potatoes - very tasty. The meat was very tender and flavored well and the potatoes were done in just enough oil to be cooked well but not greasy.
Potato gnocchi - I didn't think I'd like this as I've only really had gnocchi's that are sooo filling. These were nice and light, very tender and in a nicely seasoned white sauce.
Duck confit ravioli - these were so rich. Probably one of my lesser yums of the night. They were just a little too sweet, but I couldn't pinpoint what the taste I wasn't enjoying was coming from. They were still ok.
The crab cakes were good, but a little on the seafoody side (you know, just a whiff of that clam chowdery smell) Plus, my personal preference for crab cakes is that I love them really crunchy and deep-fried-y. They were not mushy, but not crisp. The sauce they were served with really came to the rescue. I could have just eaten a bowl of that sauce.
Coconut shrimp - freaking awesome - not much more to say than "wow!"
The prosciutto crostini was good. One of the guys traded his portion of another appetizer to obtain his wife's crostini...it wasn't THAT good :)
We also had salads. I hate beets so I avoided the special salad of the night even thought they graciously offered to not add beets. I instead had the house herb dressing salad. The dressing was great, but the local greens were just a bit too...earthy. Like sometimes the base of the leaves tasted a little dirty, which I shouldn't complain about, because that's what it tastes like coming out of my garden too. I think I'm mad about this because I was insanely jealous of my husbands salad, which involved an entire half of a pear, roasted with goat cheese and walnuts. OOO it looked so good and he didn't even give me a bite! :) Next time, I'll know what to get.
On to service...OK, so I've had some weird experiences there I guess. This time that we went with our friends, the staff was amazing. Friendly, and I don't mean the hassling you every 2 minutes and squatting down to take your order type of friendly. Just genuinely nice and trying to be as helpful as possible, including knowing when to buzz off without being asked to. The weird part is, I had been in twice before on seperate occasions to see about just getting a table on some random days. Both times I entered the dining room and got looked at like I was some moron, why was I there? I don't know what the deal was, but maybe those were the people that were garnering all those bad reviews and maybe they've all been fired because when we went this last time...wow, excellent. Enjoy. I hope they stay consistent and I don't have to eat my words with a new review next time I go.
Summary: service is better now, order the roasted pear salad and my 2 favorite tapas are walnut/goat cheese balls and coconut shrimp.
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