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| - Ama Always used to run out of a food truck, but has now converted into a regular restaurant that opened up about 5 weeks ago. The atmosphere is nice, but music was too loud to try and have a conversation without yelling.
Our server was extremely friendly and very attentive. Even the chef came out to check on us, which was a nice gesture. However, a few things that wasn't great:
- Menu is very limited (ok for a food truck, but a regular restaurant should have a more diverse menu).
- For a place with a big bar and DJ, they don't have beers on tap, just a limited selection of bottles. Flying Monkey craft brewery is right next door, so I was tempted to sneak a beer in from there!
- They serve food on plastic plates, again ok for a food truck but unacceptable for a restaurant at this price point.
- Main entrees come with salad and a couple of sides, but these same items are listed as appetizers on the limited menu and we weren't explicitly told that they are the same.
- The price is way too high for the quality and portion of the food.
The empanadas were quite tasty, but $9 for two tiny vegetarian pastries is too expensive.
The 7 oz entrana steak was tender and very tasty. It came with salad and sides of sweet potatoes and beets (which was overcooked and burnt). But again, too pricey at $32 for just a 7 oz skirt steak, which is one of the cheapest cuts of meat. But the meat was super flavorful and I enjoyed this dish very much.
The Pescado del Dia, was a very small white snapper fish for $36. The exact same salad and 2 sides as the steak entree, so boring and not much variety. The fish was under-cooked and what made it worse was the fish didn't seem fresh (very fishy smell). We were told they have just 4 snappers left and then they were going to switch to some other fish, so perhaps our fish was from the last shipment and had already started to go bad. Regardless, even if the fish was fresh, it was tiny and way overpriced at $36. I've been to so many other restaurants that serve whole Branzino twice the size, perfectly grilled, for less. So this dish was certainly a disappointment...
This restaurant has the potential to be great, but has lots of room for improvement. Both the Empanadas and Entrana steak were delicious. The service and atmosphere was great. However the white snapper was a disaster, the sides were duplicated in the appetizers and accompanied both entrees, resulting in very little variety. Personally, I think this restaurant is still run like its out of a food truck, which isn't a bad thing. But to justify charging the price that it does, it needs time to mature into a proper restaurant (get rid of plastic plates and improve and diversify the menu). Until some changes are made, not interested in coming back...
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