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| - RED. Hip, contemporary, modern place..in Beachwood? what! Oh, and prepare to be stuffed.
We went here for restaurant week as well, and I was quite surprised about it. Even though I live on this side of town, I never really eat around here..mostly because it feels so commercialized and there's chains of restaurants...but nonetheless, off we went to try Red.
For appetizers, I ordered the french onion soup. Mmmmm. That's one good, hefty french onion soup with gruyere. Mmmmmm. He ordered the RED salad...which was good as well.
For entrees, I ordered the salmon. Holy cow, that's a HUGE piece of salmon. It was cooked well- not too overcooked at all. He ordered one of the steaks though- and omg, that was a great steak. I kind of wished I had ordered it instead of my salmon.
On the side, as we didn't realize how huge the portions were, we got the sweet potato fondue- it's mostly sweet potatoes with marshmallow fluff on top...which was delish. But man....by that point, we were stuffed.
For dessert, I HAD to order the donut holes. Omg, those donut holes are amazing. I just saw the word on the menu and told him, "we HAVE to get those!". I was so surprised by it too- hot from the oven, a whole little pedestal of donut holes come out, with three dipping sauces of chocolate, caramel, and..raspberry? But OMG, I could of eaten those donuts all day... they were good.
So, great on the portions and definitely a nice contemporary place to hang out with work friends or a work party. A little on the pricey side and our waiter was a little demeaning in that manner (kept pressuring us to get more...kind of scoffing that we were ordering not that much), so that took it down a star for me, but nonetheless, pretty good food when you're off of Chagrin.
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