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| - Came here with my wife tonight. Had read good things about this place and our favorite eastern European place, Pierzok, had closed down last year so we were hankering for some stuffed cabbage and pierogies. The happy hour menu looked pretty decent, so we rushed to get there at the right time to qualify for it.
When we got there, the restaurant was virtually empty- one or two other tables had guests at it. The hostess looked at us and said, "Do you have a reservation?" Now, I didn't make a reservation- didn't realize that these seats were hot seats in town. I said "No" and so she asked us if were were here for "dinner" and I said "yes".
When I sat down, I looked at the menu and to my surprise there was no Happy Hour menu. I asked the waitress about it and she said that she would check and after checking, she said that the Happy Hour menu was only available at the bar. I looked at my wife and we decided it wasn't worth the trouble to switch seats- but really? Only at the bar? In an empty restaurant?
Anyways, we ordered the borscht soup (very bright, tasty and different- we'd never had this before and would order it again), Chicken Paprikash (meh, definitely very meh. We had to add salt and pepper and I can't remember the last time we had to add salt and pepper to a restaurant dish) and the Ukrainian Favorites (two stuff cabbages and 3 pierogies). The stuffed cabbages were OK- they also needed salt. Pierzok's rolls were better. Pierogies were good- but were run of the mill pierogies.
Bread was a really nice crusty loaf with a delicious herbed butter. They didn't bring refills or offer to.
Service was decent- our waitress did come back to check on us, but she wasn't very friendly, at least compared to the way she was with the ethnic Ukrainians who were speaking their native language.
Will I come back? I'm not sure- I did like the borscht soup and the bread. Next time I'll come back, sit at the bar and get some happy hour entrees- they did look interesting to me.
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