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| - I'm so in love with the porch!!!
For realz people! This place has it all! The set up is so awesome. I can't believe this is another part of the Eat n' Park family (although I have mad love for the E n' P, being my first job:) It's really open, with nice dark wood, which actually also makes it feel cozy too. I think the open fire place helped as well! You really don't expect such a nice place to be in Oakland (sorry peeps, when I think Oakland, I think Hemingway's and dive bars).
I don't mind the help yourself kind of set up either. You gaze over the menu of delicious looking foods. Decide what you want, which is, in fact, pretty hard with how amazing everything sounded. I went with the Rocket Salad. I was sold with the word beets! I was also sold with the amazing sounding warm spiked cider on the chalkboard. Okay, I'll admit it, I was also sold with the taters (because I had read the reviews already, which had stated they were delish!). So, I pigged out. Well worth it my friends!
The salad was really amazing. It was a great spring mix of lettuce, a good amount of beets and a light sherry vinaigrette dressing. I thought there was a little too many croutons and Chorizo. But I loved the parmesan and sunflower seeds. Overall, a win. I also enjoyed the taters. For some reason I thought they were going to be more like tots, but they ended up being more like homefries. Now, if you like crispy homefries, you'll LOVE this! There's tons of crispy little potato pieces amongst large chunks of taters. I LOVE me some crispy taters, so this was totally fine with me! I wasn't too into the curry ketchup, but I'm a 100% Heinz devotee, so this isn't surprising if you know me. But they gladly brought me regular ketchup (I believe Heinz:).
Speaking of service....I thought it was awesome! I feel like when there's a help yourself service, you expect to be ignored most of the time. But I think there was at least 4 or 5 people that came around to ask if we needed anything, cleared our plates and checked on us again, that it was incredibly impressive! You will not be ignored!
Oh, and my spiked cider, absolutely satisfying on a crisp winter day! I loved the taste, the whipped cream and cute little cinnamon stick accent. Love love love everything!
Can't wait to return!
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