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| - Visited Armitage Bistro for the first time yesterday with high hopes, seeing as though it's a wine bar and we really love Bomberos, Postino and 5th & Wine elsewhere in the valley.
Ordered up a few glasses of wine for a special price of $5 on happy hour, which is normal HH pricing at a wine bar. The wine was good. Their happy hour lasts til 7pm, later than most other wine bars, which is a plus.
Appetizers were $5, so we sampled the Bruschetta, Warm Spinach Dip, Toasted Ravioli and a half order of french fries.
Let's start with the Bruschetta, you get to choose 4 types, so we went with 2 Tomato & Fresh Mozzarella, 1 Mushroom & Gorgonzola and 1 Chopped Tomatoes & Roasted Garlic.
As the bruschetta arrived, my first impression was that it was definitely a smaller portion than I'm used to receiving at other wine bars that I frequent. It's essentially one piece of some type of normal-sized sliced bread cut into 4 pieces and dressed up with different toppings. I much prefer the bread & portions at Bomberos & other spots.
The Tomato & Fresh Mozzarella bruschetta was highly UNimpressive. In fact, it really wasn't good. The tomato slices weren't red, they were thin, the fresh mozzarella wasn't impressive and there was barely any basil on them. Big bummer for us since this is usually our most favorite type of bruschetta.
On to the next type! The Chopped Tomatoes & Roasted Garlic was okay, but we didn't prefer it much due to the overly garlic flavor. If you're into garlic, you'll like the taste here, but again, the bread contributed to a disappointing experience with this bruschetta.
The Mushroom & Gorgonzola bruschetta was delicious! Definitely our favorite out of the different bruschetta types we sampled.
Next up we got the "Warm Spinach Dip" which is described on the menu as "Spinach, Artichoke Hearts, Irish Cheddar & Asiago Cheese
Served with Warm Bread & Pita". I'm not familiar with Irish cheddar, but this dip was almost entirely cheese and had a very sticky/globby feel. There didn't seem to be much spinach/artichoke in it. We didn't really enjoy this dish.
Next up was the toasted ravioli. Not too shabby, but not overly impressive either. It was a good effort and we ate it with the provided marinara dipping sauce.
Lastly we got a half-order of seasoned french fries. These were pretty decent. They come with 2 sauces, one of which is a red-pepper ranch type sauce that was good. The other is a BBQ-esque sauce with some other twist, but we didn't really dig that one. I did enjoy dipping my french fries into the aforementioned cheese dip.
Overall for the price, and even at a discounted happy hour price, we didn't feel it was worth our money. The bruschetta could definitely use some improvement, especially the Tomato & Fresh Mozzarella variety.
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