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| - This is a super-solid four star review. I'm reserving my five stars for the truly extraordinary. That said, it deserves every little bit of their four stars.
Just came from a late lunch at Ticoz where my BF and I used a Groupon. We came in around 2:30 and were asked where we'd like to sit. We asked for "the comfiest seat in the house" and were shown to the cabana outside. Perfect!
Because we were there at an odd hour, there weren't a lot of other customers competing for our server's attention. He was delightful, attentive without being too present.
The sangrias were really solid - and enormous. Good balance of fruit and booze. Our server recommended the cocount curry chicken, and with good reason. It was excellent. My only complaint is that the chicken was that it was obviously added after the coconut curry rice base. (Which is great, it can be a solid vegetarian option) but the chicken flavor didn't compliment the rest of the dish. It had a sort of Latin flavor while the curry was decidedly Asian. It was served with some tortilla chips stuck in the curry, and s it turned out, I ended up eating the chicken with the chips separately, so it was like two dishes in one. Weird. They were both great, but if I did it again, I would sitr the chicken in to the curry myself and hope that once I did that the flavors would be more complimentary.
BF got the paella, which was a seafood rice dish. Really really nice. Excellent choice, and while it was a hefty $18 it could easily have been lunch for two. Easily. Between the two of us, we brought more home with us than we were able to eat, as my dish was also absurdly generous. Smaller portion options would likely have been a good idea, especially for lunch.
Since we were there for a leisurely afternoon, with nowhere else to be, and reasonable expectations about the food, it was a resounding success. We lounged, we ate, we used the free wifi. The check came to $42, which I thought was completely reasonable. I think that a party of four could have come in and ordered the same two plates, and everyone would have left satisfied.
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