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| - Review #13 of Yelp's 30 Day Challenge 2012
The interior is simple, though friends have conflicting viewpoints on the decor. Metal meets wood. Modern? Or IKEA? You be the judge. I say... I like it.
I feel like Bar C will be the place where suburban Calgary learns about tapas and cocktails. The menu is made for sharing, but it's full of recognizable food items that won't scare the non-foodies away. Pulled pork tacos, crab fritters, fries, lamb... it's pretty straight forward. And the two big screen TVs over by the bar can't hurt either. I know! All of y'all who're about the atmosphere are screaming bloody murder. Chill, naysayers. It'll be interesting to see what sort of clientele Bar C draws in the long term, but for now... I'll liken them to the bridge between the upper scale food and cocktail culture happening in our city right now and thank them for bringing style and class to a potential scene that might otherwise stay stuck in their sportsbar, rum and coke or crappy beer drinking ways.
What we ate:
- CRMR game meat balls
- fries with paprika mayo
- crab fritters
- lamb shank
- crisp artichoke hearts
- an order of bread and tapinade for the meatballs and sauce with the lamb
- baked hot chocolate souffle
I LOVED the crisp artichoke hearts, meat balls, lamb shank and dessert! So good. The dip with the crab fritters was tasty... but they weren't a draw for me. I must get back to that dessert though... ZOMG! If you told me it were possible to make pure decadence into something I could stomach after I had stuffed my face full of great food and drink, I never would've believed you. That is... until the baked hot chocolate soufflé. It's chocolatey enough to satisfy my choca-holic tooth and yet light enough that I didn't feel over stuffed after we polished it off too (mind you, there WERE three of us sharing it).
Cocktail-wise, I tried the Aviator and the Dr. Phong.
Aviator: Oxley Gin with Giffard Violet and Luxardo Marachino. Verdict: Not for the faint at cocktail heart. It's smooth... but it's not the sweetest drink in the world. If you like gin or you're a fan of a bit more complex flavour to your drink, you'll likely enjoy this one.
Dr. Phong: Fernet-Branca with pear and Bergamot and lemon. Have you ever tried retsina? Don't. It's a Greek drink made from tree sap. And it tastes like tree sap. Fernet is similar. It's got that earthy, sappy, medicine kind of taste to it. Dr Phong is a very different drink. My prediction is that a lot of you wouldn't enjoy it. However, it's worth a shot, a sip rather. Make sure you invite me along. Because if you don't enjoy it, I'll most certainly finish it for you. But then again, I'm the kind of person that also enjoys the after taste Buckley's leaves on my tongue. Not that Dr Phong tastes anything like Buckleys... I just don't know what else to compare that medicinal Fernet taste to.
Anyway, Bar C's got my approval. I'll be back for more cocktails... and more baked hot chocolate soufflé
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