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| - One of the reasons we picked Tabule for our second anniversary dinner was that I knew for sure they would let us BYOW. I used their online reservation system the night before and asked what the corkage fee was. They called me back today to confirm the reservation and that corkage was free on Monday and Tuesday. Win! So after work, off we went with one of the remaining bottles of wine from our wedding reception. (See my review of Millwood Wine Works. This stuff keeps getting better.)
At a quarter after 7 the restaurant was packed and pretty loud. The reservation was a good idea. Everyone was in there, from families with little kids to coworkers having drinks to snoogly romantic couples. The decor is pretty, cozy and neutral coloured with jeweltone lamps and other Middle-Eastern-esque accents.
Our appetizers were labni (the yogurty creamy cheese dip) and maane (spicy beef sausages). Both were very tasty, especially the sausages, which were intense little chewy things that seemed to have something like nutmeg or clove in them. Don't be afraid to finish your pita bread, because they'll keep bringing baskets of it. Then again, don't fill up on it, because you want to be able to keep eating.
My dinner was shrimp in a tomato garlic sauce, and hubby's was barbecued lamb. The one little problem happened here -- initially I got the dry grilled shrimp when I'd ordered the ones with the sauce, and when I got the right one (very quickly -- the server just took it back to the kitchen to have the sauce put on it) the server came back with a bowl containing two more shrimp and more sauce. Seems my plate did not contain all the shrimp it was supposed to. I wouldn't have noticed, there were six or eight in there and they were huge. Oh, and the waitress came back to tell us about the missing shrimp, after we got them. Everyone was very attentive, as busy as they were.
I keep seeing the word 'fresh' repeated in the reviews, and everything is indeed fresh. The veggies are perfect, charred and softened a little bit. I'm used to Middle Eastern food being a little too oily and a little too vinegary, but everything here was perfectly balanced. Nothing was too bland and nothing was too spicy.
For dessert we had baklava (hubby initially wanted rice pudding, but they were all out by the time we ordered dessert around 9 pm) and mühalabiya. The latter is a very light eggy custard topped with crystallized sugar, pistachio, and rose syrup. I can't resist rose syrup and I'm glad I went for this stuff.
Overall, without beverages (because we brought our own wine), the three course dinner plus tax and tip came to around eighty dollars for us both. If you want to feel like you're having a fancy dinner without having to pay too much or dress up too much, Tabülè will do you right.
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