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Lovely restaurant owned by two sisters for the last 20-something years in the Elizabeth area. Their menu is what adrove me to bookmark this spot and eventually try it out today, finally! A short Uber ride later, we arrived to an almost-empty restaurant on a Tuesday evening, which eventually became more filled as the evening went on. The crowd seemed like the business crew, since I recognized all the finance and tech speak that was going around at all the tables.
Our server was extremely friendly, patient, and helpful. She always kept coming back to check on us - gotta love that Southern hospitality!
We started off with 3 appetizers:
- Grilled octopus - probably one of the smallest pieces of grilled octopus in the form of an appetizer I've ever seen. However, it was of a good texture and cooked fairly well, though it could have been slightly more tender.
- Beef carpaccio - I would not recommend this if you are not a mustard fan. It's covered in a tangy, slightly spicy mustard. The beef itself is sliced so thin that you hardly taste anything except the mustard - probably the only downside of this dish.
- Mussels - the broth is flavorful and different from the typical white wine and garlic both and the crostini that came with it was amazing. However, I just wasn't all that impressed by the mussels - they could have been infused with more flavor from the broth and the texture of the mussels were way softer than I am used to - they basically fell apart when I tried to take them out of the shell.
Overall, I'd have to say the apps were a 3-4 star quality in my personal opinion.
For my entree, I chose the venison, cooked medium rare and loved it. Everything about this dish was good, from the well-seasoned, perfectly cooked venison to the very flavorful kale and pancetta. This dish is quite a bit tangy what with the wine/grape sauce, but I love tangy food so this was great for me.
We went a little wild on dessert and ordered three. The toasted coconut cake with ice cream was nothing short of amazing and was my favorite item of the desserts. It was a very moist cake with cream cheese frosting and not too sweet. It was also HUGE. It went very well with the spicy pineapple and cold ice cream. YUM. I would definitely go there and get just this again. The creme brulee was pretty standard - it had a great vanilla bean flavor to it. Unfortunately, I didn't try the shortbread cookie. The mexican hot chocolate cake was just too chocolately and rich for me, and thus I did not have much. Definitely, definitely go for the coconut cake when you're there. 5 stars for this.
Great experience here - would recommend to business travelers and tourists to CLT!
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