| rev:text
| - While it is really awesome to have a locally owned place like this on our side of the valley, I hope they improve their food! I'm no Gordon Ramsey or Robert Irvine, but I do know delicious food when I taste it (I've traveled the world and have tried many a tasty bites locally as well).
The wine selection and wines themselves were very good. I had a really tasty peach bellini and my friend enjoyed two different glasses of white wine during our time there. But this review (the two stars) is more for the food.
Happy hour bruschetta (tomato, olive oil, & pecorino): Pretty tasty, but could have used either balsamic or a bit of onion because it was lacking flavor. Also, the bread used was clearly not higher end.
Happy hour bruschetta (brie, almonds, honey): Now this one was very very good! I"m not a brie fan, but I found this one to have a nice amount of flavor and the almonds added a good amount of crunch.
Italian Beef and Artichoke Panini: Another huge let down. I thought this one would be very flavorful due to the artichokes. But sadly, they were jarred and had that jarred flavor that just doesn't seem right. If they had been fresh, it would have made a huge difference! I wouldn't have expected jarred to have ended up on this sandwich at such a nice place. Also, the bread they use is not a true sourdough, but exactly like a loaf of white bread one would buy at the grocery store...not quite Wonderbread, but very similar. It had the Panini grill marks, but because the bread wasn't fresh or true sourdough, the sandwich again just came off as cheap...and it was a $14 sandwich!!!!!!!
Brie and Apple Panini (my friend's): I didn't want to take a bite of this one. But she really liked hers because of the flavor the brie gave it. She also had an issue with the cheap store bough bread though.
Nutella filled croissant: Okay, so we told each other this had better not be store bought before we got it. It was! But it at least didn't taste as inexpensive as the paninis and the bruschetta bread did.
I hate coming on here and writing a review like this for a local business. But the thing is, we had much higher expectations for the food because it is a wine bar and they are charging a fairly large amount for food that should be using homemade or more high-end ingredients. I understand they are probably charging more because of the expensive meats and cheeses they are using, but using the cheap bread and jarred artichokes honestly took away from a sandwich that should have tasted more rich. Don't dumb down the food at a place like this and charge the amount you are charging.
If I do come back, it will only be for the wine.
And please, please, please take down the twinkle lights. My friend and I enjoyed sitting at the bar and really liked the local art hung on the walls, but the twinkle lights (that had half the strings out and not working) cheapened such a nice place.
|
![[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)