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| - The problem with reviewing Graze is that there are only so many ways to say "everything was perfect, and I am obsessed" before the review starts to sound a little repetitive and boring - the total opposite of Graze (see what I did there?)
So, I'll settle for recommending my favorites from the menu, and trust the fates that you will soon discover for yourself how unspeakably fantastic this place is.
Oysters. If you eat oysters, you want these oysters. Like most seafood fans, I understand that consuming seafood in the upper midwest is at best potentially disappointing, and at worst downright dangerous. Having thus established my own sanity, I will now say that I would eat Graze's oysters in mid-July, during a heat wave, even if I had to shuck them myself. They're that good. Super fresh, beautifully presented, always an interesting and varied assortment, and you actually don't even have to shuck them yourself after all! Go dissipate yourself over a dozen or two of these. You will not regret it.
The bread basket. The bread basket? Yes, the bread basket. It's awesome, and I'm getting dangerously close to eating their compound butters straight. Eat it with your oysters, and level up to Poseidon-meets-Demeter God-tier of delicious.
Happy hour. Take your co-workers and go shoot the sh*t over Graze's excellent assortment of seasonal drafts, and maybe a fancy pretzel or two (mustard on mustard, cheese on mustard, plain pretzel? wow the choices are endless.) And then, when you can't finish your last even-numbered beer, stick your adorable beer token in your adorable pocket, and come back again tomorrow for a free beer, because those things are reusable. Wow, Graze loves you!
But like I said, the problem with Graze is actually that there are too many things to praise, and in Yelp Land, I'm not sure how long unbridled enthusiastic delight can go on before the algorithm melts from insufficient levels of rage-inducing disappointment ...or the character count runs out.
So, in rapid-fire succession: elderflower cocktail, pork buns, magic coffee, bibimbap, charcuterie board, cheese curds, croissants (on Saturdays!), beet salad, lamb sausage...
Just do it; you'll love it!
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