Interesting. Fun. Inventive. Intimate. There's lots of restaurants around the country reinventing dishes and deconstructing others. This one is about average for the genre for me. I would come back and try some other dishes because I'm not sure exactly how good this place is yet.
I started with a really good house cocktail. They make a manhattan that tastes like it met a camp fire. Smokey and a little sweet. Very tasty. I had the brussels sprouts and their version of a cassoulet. I've had a lot of brussels sprouts these days. Seems everywhere I do there's a rendition. These are tasty. Bacon, a little sweet, a vinaigrette, crunchy, a little rich. I liked them. The cassoulet was good, it had some highs and lows for sure. I liked the chicken hearts and the fried chicken wings but the sausage and pork belly weren't my favorite components. The sausage was over seasoned for the dish or maybe the wrong seasonings for the dish. I'm not sure but it bothered me a little. I am sure I would have liked them in something else. The pork belly wasn't the unctuous braised melt in your mouth kind I really like. Cassoulet is always very rich and this one was as well. I liked the tomato base as it cut the richness and added a bright note.
I ordered the lemon lavender cake and some french press decaf for dessert. The dessert is excellent. It comes with a slightly salty pistachio tulle. Nice! Decaf is very good. My wife had a decaf and a cocktail and the total was $125 with a tip. It's a really small restaurant but it wasn't full by any stretch at 7pm on a Friday night. Still, I would call for a reservation. We got lucky with parking on Braddock. I'm not sure where you would park otherwise.