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| - The short: Solidly A-OK. A beautiful restaurant with top-notch service, but food was hit-or-miss, especially for the prices charged.
The long: I drive by Beckett's Table during my daily commute and have been looking forward to trying it for over a year. On a whim, we finally stopped in early on a Saturday night to see if we could get a table, and we were able to.
Beckett's Table is beautiful--a large, open space that's modern without looking harsh or posh, filled with wood and stonework without being cold or harsh, well-lit without being blaring. Even though it was a Saturday night and we didn't have reservations, we were promptly seated on the patio that, even in the middle of December, was heated to a comfortable temperature that allowed us to remove our coats. The tables soaked in gentle amounts of heat so they were nice and warm when we sat down. Our server and her assistant were awesome, keeping our water glasses filled and our iced tea fresh, moving quickly and unobtrusively through the entire meal.
We started with the complimentary table bread--two brown rolls (sweet rye?) and one cheddar-topped biscuit for the two of us to split--along with a dish of soft, tasty butter. My boyfriend started with beckett's original grilled cheese, featuring pancetta, four cheeses, and a little bowl of roasted red pepper tomato soup. It was decadent and heart-stopping and a generous and tasty first course, and probably my favorite dish of the night even though it was a very homey dish--I love homey dishes, but I tend to cook those at home to save myself some bucks since they're usually pretty easy and cost-efficient to make at home. I had the super creamy grits & schreiner's sausage trio. The grits were indeed creamy, perfectly cooked, but underseasoned. I usually don't have to salt my food, I had to this time because the tasty sausage or peppery arugala topping the dish couldn't carry the load.
For our entrees, my boyfriend ordered the pork osso buco confit and I ordered the much-hyped fork tender short ribs. The spaezle that accompanied his osso bucco was fine, and his osso bucco had good flavor and texture, but it was dry. Unfortunately, that was also the theme with my short ribs. They were indeed fork tender, thrillingly so, but with my first bite, I knew they weren't moist and buttery. The mashed potatoes were, as expected, fine, as were the green beans, although they were too firm for my taste, and I had to wrestle a bit with them. All this may sound like I'm looking for baby food, but the truth is that I expect long-braised meats to be tender on the plate, but also melt-in-my-mouth buttery once it's in my mouth. It really is a beautiful sight to see a simple dinner fork swipe right through meat, but once you've had perfectly braised meat, you keep its potential in mind with following dishes. While their flavors were good, our entrees at Bckett's Table just didn't quite fit the bill.
We closed out with the award winning fig & pecan pie served with beckett's original cream cheese citrus zest ice cream, which was an awesome pair--my second-favorite dish of the night with its crumbly tender crust and a beautiful filling that was more fig than pecan, but a perfect balance in my opinion. The ice cream was delicious--soft, sour, and barely sweet--a perfect foil to the sweet pie filling.
Overall, I wasn't blown away by our dishes, but I was pleased enough and intrigued enough by the menu to want to go back when we're in the neighborhood and feeling like spending a little more than usual for dinner.
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