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| - I had a great lunch here!
The service, TBH, was average, but they pre-bused the hell out of my table so I was incredibly delighted!
(Lack of pre-bus is a HUUUUUGE pet peeve of mine!)
There were several items on the menu that I really wanted to try and I was truly torn on what to get.
There was a Wild Boar dish, a Salmon that sounded amazing, and a Duck dish that sounded awesome, too!
I'll walk you through the meal...
1.) They bring you some delicious breads (a Rosemary and Sea Salt bread, and another plainer Italian bread) to dip into a plate that had 2 perfectly rounded scoops of spreads in a pool of olive oil.
The scoops? I think that one was an avocado-based spread and the other, I think, was a black bean spread--neither of them were overly flavorful, but both were relatively light and fresh.
**My Faves Here: Sea Salt & Rosemary Bread with the [Black Bean] Spread
2.) Next was salad: You can choose a Caesar salad or a pickier/plane salad (but the plane salad will take extra time to make because the servers prep the salads themselves--so it was explained to us, anyhow).
The Caesar was good! The anchovies are diced into the dressing, but you can barely recognize them if you're not a fan of anchovies and are worried about that.
I honestly wouldn't have even known they were in there, had I not asked!
**My Faves Here: Go for the Ceasar; it was great!
3.) For an appetizer (this is a weird choice, but I'm happy we did it), we got the "Chef's Vegetarian Sampler". This included a delicious, and lightly spicy, Barley Risotto, some Sauteed Spinach, and some type of [fried] Potato dish. It was very good!
**My Faves Here: The Potatoes were pretty addicting!
**Least Faves Here: The sauteed spinach--very garlicy!
4.) I ended up choosing "Lidia's Pasta Tasting Trio"--and I would recommend that to others who find themselves torn between several things.
Here's how this works...
There are 3 pastas "of the day".
The servers bring around large bowls of all three types of pasta and places all three types on your plate for you to try.
One you've sampled all three, its "all you can eat" of your faves.
They'll ask you what types you'd like more of and give you more.
Not a bad deal!
The day that I went, all three were pretty good.
One had a spicy, red sauce and wide noodles.
Another had an olive oil based sauce and had Orecchiette pasta.
The last one was the one that I could have eaten allllllll day!
It was simple, but amazing!
Goat Cheese filled Ravioli with a Butter and Thyme sauce! Ugh... to die for!
Let me tell you about this ravioli!
They were not "doughey" at all; they were perfect!
Very thin pasta, but none were broken!
Delicate and perfectly filled with the most amazing cheese.
The butter/thyme sauce wasn't the least bit overwhelming!
It was the perfect compliment to this dish!
...just thinking about it makes me want to go back to Lidia's NOW!
**My Faves Here: OBVIOUSLY the Goat Cheese Ravioli!
**My Least Fave: The Orcchiette dish. It wasn't "bad", it was just "meh".
5.) Oh, yes... there WAS dessert, too! ;)
(don't judge me! lots of folks have dessert at lunch-time!) ;)
I enjoyed the Tiramisu!
Now, some people like it when the lady fingers in Tiramisu are very Rummy tasting, but I am not a fan of too much of that!
This was perfect and delicious!
I would def recommend it!
All in all... Lidia's = WIN!
PROS:
Delicious;
Pre-bus galore!
CONS:
Parking (but you can park in the "dust bowl" across the street.
Located in the strip
Pretty busy on the weekends!
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