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| - We came to Sens since it was pretty much the highest rated restaurant within walking distance of FilmBar. Thank you Yelp! We had a fantastic experience here. Loved the decor and atmosphere both inside and out. Decent prices for tapas style plates, and we were actually pleasantly surprised at how much food each item included. We split three dishes and a pot of Hot and Sour soup between four people, and couldn't even finish everything! They have a pretty good mix of Asian cuisine and some very unique dishes. We got the Papaya Soba Spring Rolls - they were the kind of rolls you'd get at a Vietnamese place - with a red pepper sauce with crushed peanuts. The sauce had a decent kick to it. The rolls were fresh and tasty. We also got the Ginger Fish - YUM. Very tender, great sauce, tender veggies, a real kick in the taste buds. Delicious. Our friend ordered the Sugarcane Pork since we had seen some great reviews on Yelp and LOVED it - it came in a pretty nifty serving dish with four cups and some sweet mushroom sauce in the bottom of each one. We're vegetarian so had to take his word for it :) Finally we ordered a pot of the Hot and Sour soup with fish. Wow. So completely unique and different from any Hot and Sour soup we've ever had. All three of us agreed that each bite had like three or four distinct flavors to it. It included okra, mushrooms, fish, snow peas, rice ovalettes, cilantro, and I don't even know what else.
The only drawback and our reason for not giving five stars: The drink menu. While it was pretty enormous, the server went down the beer list and told us everything they were out of, which included most of the beer list and my favorites. I finally ordered one I wasn't that excited about, and then lo and behold, they were out of that too! So no drinks for me or our friend. My lady ordered the Ginger Peach sake cocktail. The $10 price made me cringe a little, but we hoped it would be worth it. You could definitely taste the sake, but it didn't seem like anything special and was not very big at all. Definitely way overpriced.
We'll be back for sure - but next time we'll wait to drink until we go to Filmbar or Lost Leaf where the drink prices are so much more reasonable.
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