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| - Soco is a brand new restaurant that is located on the first floor of the Delta Hotel. My friend and I happened to be in the area on New Year's Day, so we decided to try this place out for dinner. It was not very busy that evening, maybe because it was new/still relatively unknown, or maybe because most people were home nursing their hangovers from the night before or spending time with family. When we arrived, I first noticed that the place had a very distinct, woody/fresh paint kind of smell, since it really is still quite new.
They have a pretty small, moderately priced dinner menu, but there were a number of dishes that caught my eye. That night however, both my friend and I ended up ordering the same thing and both got the duck confit. The description on the menu said it came with root vegetables, duck sausage, fregola sarda pasta (looks kind of like couscous/risotto), and preserved plum. When our dinners actually arrived, the duck turned out to be just a regular duck leg rather than "duck sausage." Overall though, the dish was good. The duck meat was very soft, moist and juicy, and it was very interesting to eat with the slightly sweet/sour/tarte flavour of the thinly sliced plum. I also liked the pasta, as it was my first time trying it. It had a slightly doughier texture than couscous/risotto. Apparently it is supposed to have a sort of nutty flavour, but I couldn't really taste that because of the sauce in the dish. While I enjoyed the dish overall, I did find that it started to get a bit too salty during the last few bites. I still recommend trying it though, as it was quite good for the price of $23.
Out of curiosity, my friend and I also decided to take a look at their dessert menu, and I was so tempted by their desserts that I broke my new year's resolution on the first day of the new year and decided try one (I do it for Yelp, guys!) I got the pumpkin walnut cheesecake which was made with maple sour cream, blackberry preserve, and of course, walnuts. The cheesecake came out in a little dome shape and was presented very nicely. I think I was expecting a bit more variety in the flavours, what with the maple and the pumpkin, but I mostly just tasted pumpkin. It was quite good for a cheesecake, although there was this weird kind of gelatinous coating over the cake, so I wasn't a huge fan of that.
For me, Soco was a hit, and I would definitely return to try their other menu items. It's got kind of a cool atmosphere, and would be a good place to come for after-work drinks, lunch/dinner with friends, or even a casual date. It's dimly lit but the bar area is bright and colourful and they played fairly upbeat music while we were there. Definitely a cool, trendy kind of place to check out!
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