Taste does a "whatever we can find left in the restaurant" $30 three-course blind menu on Tuesdays. This pandered well to my food-adventure side, so I went for it.
Throughout the courses I was simultaneously delighted and disappointed.
I was impressed at the complexity of the dishes considering the chef had thrown them together that day with what they had in the kitchen. I appreciate the economics of this idea. (It's fun for the people AND we can get rid of all the heirloom tomatoes that were over ordered!).
Throughout the courses it was a bit obvious that they had to get rid of both tomatoes and beef so the overall meal lacked contrast and was very heavy. I would have appreciated a vegetable or salad course to cut the heaviness of the meal.
The dishes were good, but they were not the same level of good between each other. Had I ordered the cabbage rolls without getting a Jamaican patty, I would have never thought the cabbage rolls were a bit on the plain/gristly side in comparison to the bold and playful flavors of the patty; I also wouldn't have noticed that the cabbage roll was a bit out of place overall next to the patty and the star of the show, the bacon-wrapped burger on the homemade pretzel bun.
The burger was as interesting as it was delicious and the buns were so good several of us asked if we could take a dozen home. It was unfortunate that the previous two courses were so heavy because, try as I might, I could not finished my burger.
Although the three course dinner needs a bit of a polish I did like Taste; the service was attentive, it's intimate and small (my favorite kind of restaurant), the food is good, and the Tuesday night blind menu does makes Taste an interesting spot for a weekday date-night or friends-night-out.
T.