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| - Met a girlfriend for lunch & we were excited to try The Porch. Terrific concept-neighborhood hangout/sports bar-with fun front yard of artificial grass, retro-y red & white outdoor furniture & lawn games. Lots of tvs that hubby will like. D, a vegetarian, said she was starving and ordered 2 kinds of bruschetta & a side salad. I ordered the fig and goat cheese salad. While the plump burrata w/ pesto bruschetta looked amazing, D couldn't get a knife through the rock-hard bread part. As the other bruschetta was scorched black, she didn't even try to tackle it so asked the very nice waitress to send it back. Another order came back quickly, this time not so blackened but the crust was just as impossible to bite that D was afraid she'd crack a tooth. Thankfully, that was taken off our bill. Her dinky side house salad for $5 was served in such a small little bowl that made it awkward to eat. Meanwhile, my salad had beautiful little fresh figs on a bed of greens with pickled red onions and little pea-sized lumps of white cheese that really tasted like bland feta rather than "goat cheese." Guess I was expecting larger clumps of creamy, tangy goat cheese. I know feta sometimes is made with sheep's and goat's milk, but it's not the same as "goat cheese." Size of salad & ingredients not worth the $12. Felt bad that D went away still hungry, but I'm willing to try again in the future.
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