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| - My friend and I decided on a night of lusty looks and gnawing on meat as we took in Echo & Rig for dinner before heading over to the Suncoast to see the new Scarlett Johansson feature "Under the Skin" While waiting for my friend I took a seat at the bar where I was pleasantly surprised to find that they offered the full menu. Since we were on a limited amount of time (heaven forbid I miss any minutes of ScarJo action) I decided our best bet was to just eat there, and it also allowed us to partake in the final moments of happy hour.
Unfortunately and probably due to a mixture of too much Jack Daniels and just the right amount of ScarJo intake during the evening I don't recall our bartender's name. But he was friendly, engaging, and got our refills and food orders put in with perfect timing. I heard him make some recommendations on food items to some other patrons, but I didn't need those as I'm a Yelper who does his research and generally knows what he wants to order before ever sitting down at a restaurant.
Here's what we went with (everything was shared)
1. Fried Spinach Salad: This reminded me so much of one of my favorite eats ever, Toro with Crispy Spinach from Izakaya by Katsuya in Los Angeles. The spinach is melt in your mouth with a great flavor. A must order
2. Salt and Pepper Fries: I would have normally gone with the Yelp favorite Portobello fries, but I thought my dining companion would enjoy these more based on her tastes. Perfectly cooked, but perhaps not enough pepper to really stand out as anything other than a batch of decent salted french fries you can get all over town
3. Brussel Sprouts: The Yonaka effect. Ever since Yonaka's version anytime I see these on any menu I want to try them. These were tasty. Perfectly grilled with lemon and pistachios.
4. Then came the star of the show, the Filet Mignon which is billed as "Double R Ranch Sustainable Beef". It came with a Green Peppercorn sauce on the side which we chose, but honestly it might as well not have come with that at all. We both took a bite of the meat with the sauce and enjoyed it, but then ate the rest of it without ever putting anymore sauce on it. I tend to think beef stands on it's own and only needs the slightest of seasoning to make it perfect, and this was a shining example of that.
All in all our bill came out to roughly $80 and was worth every penny. Now I anxiously await a new Mila Kunis or Natalie Portman feature to be exclusively playing at the Suncoast so I can do it all over again.
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