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| - Had dinner at Rose & Sons on a Saturday night at 9 pm. My boyfriend & I made reservations and when we arrived there was a table waiting for us. Rose & Sons is tiny and a bit loud: the noise coming mostly from the patrons, yakking away.
We had two appetizers:
1) Grilled ceasar salad with anchovy dressing & squash. Delicious dressing, but I personally am not a fan of grilled lettuce. While I enjoyed it, this was the only dish of the night I can't absolutely rave about.
2) Special of the night: Buttermilk batter, deep fried cornish hen wings in a spicy-sweet sauce, with a side of sweet & pickled cucumber. Delish! Spicy enough to have a kick without being too hot. One of the highlights of the meal.
Doug had the grilled skirt steak with french fries. His eyebrow raised a bit when it came sliced (I don't know is that a thing?). But he really enjoyed it - he even liked the subtle bernaise sauce that came with it and he usually doesn't like it when people put sauces on steak. The french fries were good too.
I had the porterhouse pork chop with chili greens, hush puppies and maple syrup. Very nice. The pork chop was amazing and the maple syrup was not too sweet. But the real winner of this dish was the hush puppies. Really yum. I don't think I've ever had hush puppies before, but they were awesome and really complemented the dish. I could only eat one out of the two chops on my plate and still have room for dessert so I got the 2nd one for takeaway.
For dessert we ordered the "Brownie Surprise", which our server would only say was "chocolate and had peanuts" - and the rest she couldn't tell us because it was a surprise. When it came I sure was surprised over how much I LOVED it, and I expected to enjoy it a whole lot. It was a slice of chocolate brownie with peanut butter sauce, chocolate sauce, whole peanuts and a BIG dollop of soft-serve vanilla ice cream. WOW. Heaven. This is the most expensive dessert they had ($14) and it's very sharable and very worth the $$$.
The meal, plus three alcoholic drinks ran us around $130 plus tip.
Will return. Next time we go I want to try the "schmaltz mash". The people around us seemed to be ordering the $50 "family dinner" and it looked pretty smashing too.
Worth noting: when we left at 10:15 there was a line up out the door.
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