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| - Five stars for this little gem! My dad and I went here last night for dinner, and we were blown away by our meals. We started off with lump crab served on pea cakes, which were surprisingly delicious. I don't know what they did to those peas, but they were buttery and smooth and just perfect. The crab was very good too, even for my dad, who isn't a huge fan of crab. 4.5/5 for the crab.
We also each ordered Sangrias. My dad liked his, but I found mine too bitter, which may be a reflection of my preference for incredibly sweet drinks as opposed to a comment on the drink itself...I asked them if they could add some syrup, which they did, and that made it a bit better. 3/5 for the Sangria.
Next we had a salad with melon and prosciutto, which was crispy like bacon, and absolutely divine. I'd never had prosciutto done that way before and it was delicious, perfectly balancing out the sweetness of the melon. Yum! 5/5 for the salad.
They also brought out some biscuits, which were absolutely to die for. Literally the best biscuits I have ever had, and after living in the south for awhile, I am obsessed with biscuits, and I make my own on a regular basis and get frequent compliments on them. But these...these biscuits blew mine out of the park. I have never had such a moist, creamy, fluffy biscuit in my entire life. They barely even needed butter. I gobbled mine up and almost gobbled my dad's up too, but he wouldn't let me. :( So I had to ask them to bring me another one. They gave me the recipe for the biscuits so I can make them myself, and I am very excited to try it out. 6/5 for the biscuits.
For our main course, we had flank steak with green onion on top. The green onion balanced out the steak very well. The steak itself was a bit tough, but very flavorful, and flank steak is naturally a bit tough, so I wouldn't hold that against them. 4/5 for the steak.
With the steak, they brought out potatoes, which were the only part of our meal that was just meh - nothing wrong with them, just ordinary potatoes. 3/5 for the potatoes. They also brought out yellow string beans, which were delicious! I have never had string beans so smooth and buttery and cooked just right...5/5 for those.
Another 6/5 for the corn on the cob they also brought out. The corn literally blew me away. Corn is one of my favorite things, and I have it wherever I can, and my dad makes really great corn on the cob too, but this...the corn was out of this world. They grilled it with chipotle aioli, and it was so creamy and flavorful and just...guh...I have been dreaming about that corn all day today. I have never had such delicious corn in my entire life.
The next course was blue cheese, but neither my dad nor I are huge fans of blue cheese...we both tried it and found it way too "blue" for our tastes. So they took it away and brought us our final course, which was raspberry cheesecake with a chocolate "crust." I hesitate to even call it a cheesecake - it was more like a cheese pudding. It was very thin and creamy, like a panna cotta (although I believe it was made from raspberry infused cream cheese), and the raspberry taste was very strong. It was an interesting concept and I enjoyed it, but the raspberry taste eventually was overpowering so I couldn't finish the whole thing. 4/5 for the cheesecake.
The wait staff were very attentive and the ambience is great for a nice dinner out. The price is also pretty reasonable, considering the quality of the food. Five stars for some of the yummiest food I have had in my life and some other interesting creations, and I can't wait to come back here and try some more!
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