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| - Stopped by the soft-opening for Bestellen this weekend and was pretty excited. I've been waiting for months for the place to open, Rob Rossi's one of the hottest chefs in town, and the premise of the menu sounded very appealing.
The dining area is very spacious, no part of it feeling crowded (which is tough in most places in the city), with a large meat locker across from the bar where you can watch your meat age (if you've got a few weeks, I guess). Pretty cool. Open concept kitchen at the very back of the restaurant and that adds to the liveliness of the place.
The menu is pretty simple and straightforward (starts with about half a dozen side dishes... the most attractive looking like the fried cheese curds with gravy and the Brussel-sprouts with pork belly for 6$).
Next was on the menu was the sharing section which was a charcuterie board of all pork (terrine with pistachio, some cured cuts, three pieces of toasted bread, mustard, coppa, and a small bowl of pickled vegetables) for 13$. I believe on the menu it listed as coming with chorizo as well, but I didn't see it on our board.
It was a good starter to share and cover us while we were picking our mains, but nothing jumped out as especially unbelievably delicious.
I opted for the burger and fries, as several people polled said that those who had eaten it claimed it to be one of the best, and a side of the brusels sprouts. I would say there were maybe 5 or 6 brussels sprouts total...so it was a little bit of sad looking side plate/expensive- they were delicious though.
The burger was served on a brioche (which is made in house and perfect), with some cheese, and caramelized onions (also perfect). The burger was made medium-rare. What I liked about it was that you could actually taste the freshness of the beef...not something you can really notice in most burger bites. I had eaten at Burger's Priest earlier in the afternoon, so maybe I was spoiled...but this one didn't really do it for me in terms of flavor...a little plain.
The fries were disappointing and only served tepid (and when I mentioned this to the server, he said "haha, oh that's how we serve them...it's the new cool thing" - Not exactly the response I was hoping for on opening night or ever).
My DC went for the ricotta nudi (similar to a very soft gnocchi) and was reminiscent of really good mashed potatoes. They were very tasty.
Beau's Lug Tread is on tap, so that's pretty good.
I think that this place could get pretty good - still hasn't FULLY opened, so this review should be taken with a grain of salt...but overall it seemed awfully pricey for an only OK overall experience.
Excited to see how they develop over the next few months.
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