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| - Five stars. Yes five. The food is fantastic, thoughtful, creative...
We started things out with the Wood Fired Grill Plate, which was a yummy selection of roasted toasted char-tastic veggies along with a respectable portion of spiced shrimp and chicken. It's not often you order an "appetizer" in a restaurant these days for $15 or less, and think to yourself it would make a great entree... very good with the plumb sauce and a pristine vodka martini, shaken not stirred.
Next came the perfectly spiced ramen in a few different flavors: The Spicy Seafood Hot Pot, the Lemon Pepper Chicken, and the Cauliflower ramen in a coconut base. All were exceptionally tasty with deep rich flavors that go well beyond simple spice. We love vietnamese "pho" and classic ramen bowls, and these will not disappoint. The broth in all three was so complex and enlightening, it was almost like eating something with a soul... (but not in a creepy Rush Limbaugh kind of way!)
And the fact these guys do it right AND do it gluten free means I don't have to ride the moist-wipe train the "morning after", or be embarrassed by the inevitable facial hives that pop up when exposed to gluten... (Think Woogie from Something About Mary). These are things us Celiacs really appreciate!
Butt I digress...
Mixology is not something to be trifled with if you are an amateur or don't know the difference between a vodka martini straight up & one with a twist. Rest assured these guys (and gals) are pros.
I began with an orange bitters gin martini, graduated to an old fashioned with Filipino cane sugar and (cinnamon?) and finished with a drink that sounded like it was named after some guys jizz. It was noisy, so I'm not exactly sure... but (not) surprisingly the drink was excellent. It was so good in fact, I "finished" with three more and it inspired me to compose a new song about the occasion...which I "rapped" to David who was blown away by my incredible talent. Talk about a happy ending...
There's one thing I'd like to point out about the drinks: They are hand crafted and it shows! Ok, there's a second thing too: they are reasonably priced and ... Crap there's a third thing: they're also strong enough to achieve their purpose, which in this case was a good ole' fashioned buzz.
Now, on to the crew. Nick, Mike, David, girl who "had to meet me", girl who took our picture, and 2nd owner bartender extraordinaire (didn't get his name, but we share a common love of the Michael Jordan hair-do and strong drinks):
All the folks who work here are fun. And by fun I mean people who know how to have a good time, and at the same time provide some of the best service of any hip place in the valley we've been to...(and if you saw my Buddha you'd believe we've been to most of them).
Amazingly, they remembered us from our first visit over a month ago, and each of the crew came over to say hello and chat. Apparently We made quite an impression...?Meanwhile our drinks were never empty, the food seemed to come out in two shakes of a lambs tail (bravo to Chef and the kitchen staff!) and we didn't even have to pay tax on the alcohol. Is that a new thing?
David is a walking piece of art, with all kinds of bitchin tattoos (yea, bitchin is so 80's, I know). And he has the hair of Jesus (as it was depicted in all the oil paintings of Jesus I gazed upon in our Mormon church when I was a kid). Mike, what can we say about Mike? He's quirky and sarcastic, yet has a sweet edge to him that makes you want to hang out or go snow-boarding. And Nick... The 163 pound man with the cutest baby-girl on earth who tickled my 300 pound Buddha and got away with it. Imagine my surprise when I found out he's one of the owners. LOL.
Seriously this is an all around great place to eat filled with interesting characters who are passionate about life and good food, and we'll be going back again and again. We had an absolute blast!
Eat here, or you suck.
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