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| - I loved everything about Aria. The food was excellent, my server (Richard) was wonderful and the decor was beautiful. I stopped by on a Thursday evening after work to grab some dinner. The bar was getting pretty packed with men and women in suits and ties.
The menu looked good but the bar bites menu looked even better. Each plate was $5 and that was what sold me. I am always one who wants to try everything on the menu but my eyes are bigger than my stomach so I stuck to just three of the items. I ordered the caramelized gnocchi, beef short ribs and the bone marrow.
Before my orders were brought out I was presented with a small bowl of tuscan beans and a nice loaf of bread. It was crusty on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside. The beans were drizzled with olive oil and had a hint of lemon juice, salt, parsley, black pepper and salt. You eat the beans with the bread. I've never had this before and it was really good.
When my entrees came out they were beautifully plated and they tasted as good as they looked. My top favorite is the bone marrow. In close second was the beef short ribs and then the gnocchi. You scoop out the bone marrow, spread it on your buttered toast and top it off wit the veggies (parsley, red onions, capers). The beef short ribs were sitting on top of polenta and was topped with some greens (don't know what type) and what looked like cubes of beets. It was drizzled with a fruity, acidic sauce. The dish was pulled together nicely. The gnocchi was also beautifully plated but I got this only because it was a dish I have never had before. It looked like little balls of dough but did not taste doughy at all. It was soft and chewy but did not have much flavor. If it wasn't for the toppings (Prosciutto di Parma, Pear, Gorgonzola, Truffle Oil) I wouldn't have liked it.
I was pretty full at the end of my meal and didn't finish everything but wanted to get dessert to go. I opted for the chocolate Hazelnut Cake with Hazelnut Gelato & Vanilla Cream. Since I did not have a freezer in my hotel room for the gelato and ice cream, I had to get a substitute of berries. The slice of cake was pretty big and I could not finish it. The cake itself was a little dry but if you take in the hazelnut and the cake along with the chocolate together it is absolutely decadent. I would have been sinful if I had the ice cream and gelato too because I was told that it compliments the cake beautifully and brings out even more flavors. Ugh, I wish I had saved room to eat it the way it was supposed to be eaten. Oh well.
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