| rev:text
| - I was pleasantly surprised by "da coach's" restaurant and pleased that his only location outside of the two in chi-town happens to be in "da burgh". Now, it's been a little over a month since I was here, so I'll do my best to spotlight the highlights. We showed up at around 7 pm after a long day of on again off again golfing at quicksilver due to the weather. It's located in the concrete and franchise wonderland that is robinson. There was about 8 of us, so we didn't know if we'd have trouble getting a seat. Luckily they serve the full menu in the bar and we were able to get a hi-top for all of us. I don't remember anything that special about the space except it was what I expected. There was a lot of dark wood, leather booths and some brass as well as some sports memorabilia of course. The bar area was a nice surprise since it was a large bar with a few plasmas and ample seating. It's also the kind of place that you would feel perfectly comfortable in shorts even though they are trying to operate in the fine dining steakhouse category. Our server was a nice gal' who had just gotten back from italy I think. They had guinness I believe which was good, however I do recall trying a dirty martini with my dinner that was way too dirty. Think they reversed the olive juice to vodka component. I recall geting the oyster shooters which were fun in that they were raw oysters served with tobasco and maybe a hint of vodka. And, at $2 a pretty good price. There may have been other apps' but I can't recall. I do remember Jason getting the sherry crab bisque, which was okay... a little too heavy and salty for me and lacking any discernable crab. It was exactly the same as Atria's. I also noticed "pot roast nachos" on the menu there must be a connection to the family who owns Atria's. The bread was great. It was served warm with delicious room temperature butter. I don't eat salads, but remember thinking the salads looked great. The salad had goat cheese, toasted pecans, cranberries and apples. I took a chance and ordered "da pork chop", which was excellent. The chop clearly had been brined to ensure moistness and was served with an excellent sun driend cherry jus and these killer mashed sweet potatoes (all for $22). I think Corey had the lamb, which I sampled and thought they were top notch. Brian ordered the ahi tuna, which was okay I guess, but who orders ahi at ditkas steakhouse. The steak I sampled was pretty good, better than outback (which I like) but not capital grille,,,and also not capital grille prices. All in all the prices were very reasonable for the quality of experience here. They also get the small things right, like the bread and salads. The sides are pretty interesting too. I especially enjoyed trying Jason's "blackjack sweet potatoe smash" which was served with "bourbon butter" and bacon,,, really good comfort food. I took my girlfriend home a gigantic slice of choc. cake, which I sampled and thought was okay, but only okay if you decide that size doesn't matter and remove the benefit of the ridicoulous portion size. I also brought her home macaroni and cheese served with bacon. It was also good, what you'd expect, but quite frankly I'm getting a little bored with the mac n' cheese with add on's. I'll definitely go back to this place when in the area. The service was good, food was very good and prices a very good value. In fact, I've had much worse experiences for twice the cost. Good job coach!
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)