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| - quince, located in the Grand Pacific Junction shopping district of Olmsted Falls, brings a bit of food whimsy to the area. The dining room has retained the slightly-colonial decor from previous restaurants, giving it an uncluttered but homey atmosphere. The wine list is not extensive but does provide some good selections.
We started with the calimari in Thai sweet chili sauce with soba noodles. The noodles were flash-fried and delivered in a stiff rectangle of what looked like a collapsed wicker chair. They were a bit odd but quite tasty. The spinach salad with coconut chicken was fantastic, but be warned: it's large enough to be a meal, and my husband had only a couple bites of his steak because he was so full from the salad.
I had the bacon and horseradish-wrapped pork, which arrived on an oblong platter almost two feet long. It was delicious, but at a crowded table the platter could become a bit awkward to negotiate. The pork was accompanied by mashed potato balls that were fried crispy on the outside and sauteed onion and zucchini that formed the bed on which the pork medallions and potato balls rested. It was all very good.
Another person in our party had the spinach gnocchi, which was homemade and quite delicious, the gnocchi had terrific texture and the sauce was very tasty. My husband's steak was the most disappointing entre of the evening. It came with a horseradish and bacon topping and bleu cheese - it was the strangest presentation of bleu cheese I'd ever seen, being a half-inch thick rectangle of sort of plunked on top of the steak like an afterthought. The steak itself was very tasty, though.
The chef is apparently a big fan of bacon. There are many bacon-wrapped choices on the menu, and the specials included at least one additional bacon-wrapped choice. Now, I never regard bacon as a bad thing, but it's good to know the "lay of the land."
The only ding I have is the speed at which food came out of the kitchen. I have no idea what exactly was going on in the kitchen, but for a long time *nothing* came out of there, and then there were sudden spurts of dishes all coming out at once. Everything was still hot and fresh when it arrived at our table, so it obviously wasn't just sitting on a sideboard, but we were a bit pressed for time. The wait staff was attentive and friendly, and it was probably just a one-time thing, but I can't quite give it five stars under the circumstances. Still, it was quite tasty.
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