Local Bistro isn't a new haunt for us... we go again and again, but tonight it felt like a new destination, I always judge a restaurant by the bread, and Local Bistro's bread is clearly a sign of things to come. The food is always steady here... great pizza, great steak and burgers and whoa, really amazing duck risotto.
If you're not worried about calories or carbs, you need to have the drunken bread. It's the perfect combination of great bread, great cheese and wine...they also added an arancini appetizer with a fresh marinara, smoked mozzarella and pesto. That said, there are always a couple of really healthy fish specials. Honestly, I've never had anything here that I didn't want more of. (Yeah, sentence ended with preposition, sorry).
The atmosphere is super cool, it's noisy in a really good way (I honestly do not want to hear what the people next to me have to say) and the clientele is sophisticated and polite. Isiah wasa terrific server. He was gracious and has an amazing sense of timing.
After dinner, we were visited by the chef and by Benjamin, the manager who spent a great deal of time with us, explaining the restaurant's mission....
If you're near Grayhawk, and you're hungry, you can't go wrong. Oh, and by the way, they make a terrific martini and the wine is very, very reasonably priced.