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| - Sidecar Beep Beeped and Toot Tooted right into my heart. But it wasn't perfect. By any means, so lets get the bad out of the way first; on my anniversary dinner with my sweetheart, I ordered the Atlantic Salmon and the dish was served to me piping hot, artisanaly covered in their Dijon sauce and also completely and unmistakably raw in the middle. Now don't get me wrong, I can get jiggy with raw fish, throw a piece of sushi grade salmon sashimi at me and I will catch that shit with my mouth like a performing seal at Marineland, but on that particular night, I was not in the mood for some raw-ass fish - I wanted a hearty meal, as I read the menu, saw the Atlantic salmon and fantasized about flakey, juicey delectable salmon all up in my mouths.
But I didn't get that. The parts of the salmon that were cooked (the ends) were fabulous, and I ate those, but I had to leave a huge chunk in my plate. And this is where Sidecar stole my heart again...The server noticed that I left half my raw fish on the plate, and asked if anything was the matter, and in my long winded and adorable way, I explained how bummed I was about the fish being pretty raw. She listened patiently and intently, apologized about the circumstance and whisked my plate away. Shortly after, she comes back to the table and notifies me that the salmon will be comped. Yipee! I would have preferred some nice salmon to shoddy raw-ish salmon, but Sidecar service made up for my underwhelming main.
Their pistachio cannoli also had TOO MANY FUCKING RAISINS IN IT (Vomit) so I basically had to choke those down.
And the server then just checked out and took like what felt like 2 hours to fulfill our bill (we had to flag her down and ask for it)
BUT, the ambiance at Sidecar is truly stupendous and to repeat, the service is generally stellar. I tried to book online for a table at 7, and there weren't any, so I called in and the lovely gentleman was able to squeeze me an my partner for that time slot (Go you reservation booking dude!) We arrived and our coats were swiftly taken and we were seated, drink orders were taken and fulfilled, app orders placed, and soon enough we were slurping down fresh oysters and inhaling their crab cakes (those crab cakes are finger-licking deep fried morsels of true happiness).
I ordered their Sazarac (pretty much only for the absinthe...) which came in the cutest little old timey bottle and a vintage glass, the drink was strong and tasty.
I sampled the sweethearts Steak Frites and Creme Brulee and that shiz was TOP NOTCH.
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