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| - Was very excited to give this place a try. We arrived about 20 minutes before our reservation time so that we could sit at the bar and get that experience too. They have a great selection of wines by the glass as well as bottle (although I found the wine key to be very distracting -- obsessed with matching up the images to the key so I could figure out what notes were in the wine, most people probably wouldn't bother). They have a great handcrafted cocktail menu and a cool, clean vibe in the bar area. The hubs is quite a personable guy, (at parties I hide praying people don't talk to me and he has a crown of admirers around him -- polar opposites) so he asked the bartender what his favorite dishes were on the menu and the bartender was quite snippy. Said he wouldn't "do that anymore"...the hubs persisted and the bartender seemed quite irritated and proceeded to name pretty much every item on the menu. I think both of us were too taken aback to be upset, I was really amused to be honest. He had also taken our drink order and we thought he went to make it and then came back about 6 minutes later and said "so what'll it be?" LMAO. We said, oh we ordered and we are just doing drinks. He said "oh I know, I just forgot what you ordered". This dude was a character -- but he certainly colored our experience! Everyone has bad days.
We sat for dinner in the neatly appointed dining room. Love the high ceilings. I wish I could remember our server's name because she was phenomenal. She had great wine recommendations and superb salesmanship. She also made up for the grumpy ass bartender.
For small plates we ordered the Vietnamese salad (a little salty for my taste, a pinch less salt and I would have been raving about it -- it has some of my favorite things in it: shrimp, calamari, avocado, tomato, yum). The hubs had the octopus ravioli appetizer and it was probably one of the best things that we had tried there. So good, rich creamy tomato and white wine broth. The octopus was seasoned and cooked to perfection. Our friends had the cauliflower app, which was like a breaded and baked to perfection with a squeeze of lemon juice goodness. Best prep of cauliflower. They also had the burrata, creamy goodness. The gazpacho looked out of this world good -- i didn't try it but i will when I go back. Looked vine fresh!
For our entrees, I couldn't help myself and went with the falafel burger. I really couldn't decide what to order, there were so many things that I wanted to try. The falafel burger is HUGE, layered with pickled beet, goat cheese, cucumbers, on a nice chewy ciabatta. I put down half and took home half. Solid falafel, warmed up well. The fries that came with it were fantastic! The hubs had the lumacha which the server described as their answer to mac n cheese. I don't know if I found it mac n cheesy but I did find it very tasty indeed. I would probably liken it their version of spaghetti and meat sauce but much sexier. The hubs was very pleased.
We would definitely go back and I think this place is a rad spot for vegetarians as there are tons of options. They have a pretty large space and I am sure that they are much busier when the weather is nicer. I would love to try them for brunch!
Come here, just avoid the scary bartender! ;)
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