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| - First time here, and I wish it was better. I have been hearing about this restaurant from everyone, saying how good it was and how trendy it became on the weekends. But now that I think about it, these were all things I heard circa 2011-ish, so maybe St. Francis just isn't what it used to be?
That being said, I'll just jump right into what I didn't like. We ordered the lunch special of the day, which was explained as a shrimp salad with mango salsa. Sounds great, but what came to our table was 4 grilled jumbo shrimp on top of a couscous. Now this was delicious, we scarfed it up, but if I was on some sort of gluten free or no carb diet, I would have been disappointed when the dish came out sans greens. We also ordered the Morrocan meatballs, which were seasoned with WAY too much cumin. It was overpowering. I like the occasional cumin in Mexican and Moroccan fare, I even use it in my cooking quite often(even on steak and rib rubs) but this was way too much. My mom and I each had a couple small bites and couldn't stomach it any longer. I was SO sad, because the dish is on top of large balls of Israeli couscous and covered in melted mozzarella, and the cumin in the tomato sauce just overpowered it all. Me reject melt-y, bubbling cheese? Doesn't happen too often.
It is a cute little restaurant, and we may go back, I just wanted to share what I would have liked to know before going here(because I LOVE meatballs, and for my fellow meatball lover...heads up).
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