Meena P.
Yelp
Looking for a new place to try on our way to the beach, I found this on Yelp.
Nice place , not quite sure they have the ambiance right, needs something to warm it up.
The food and wine were great though!
Pretty busy for a Saturday evening, I made reservations which you can only do by phone, they also have some days they are closed so check their website.
Once seated, our server gave us menus, for food and wine, and after two tries we finally got wines they had in stock! Decent prices on glasses and bottles. I had a nice red blend, my friends had a Chardonnay and a prosseco.
They have small plates and larger plates. We had a couple of each, the truffle fries were amazingly good, not frozen, these were house cut and nice and thick, served hot, drizzled with truffle oil. Delicious. The French onion soup was super gooey and cheesy, and fresh and hot. The beet and Brussels , now this was unusual but really good, with pecans, golden beets that were nice and tangy, with goat cheese, and dried cranberries, and flash fried Brussels, this was kinda like a salad, nice and different though, loved the beets.
The mussels I had were fresh, big meaty mussels, and I chose the tomato broth with garlic, served with some nice charred bread, I loved this light but plentiful dish. Gotta love fresh seafood.
My friends rigatoni alla Norma, also served in a huge bowl, nice big pasta, not too much eggplant though, but good sauce and cheese. Good sharing larger plate. We took the leftovers home.
We tried the Italian cream cake , and this was my first time ever having this cake and yes definitely wave this Super moist, nutty, vanilla cake with Italian cream frosting again, so deliciously light but probably not! Also had coconut in it, this was a great different choice for me who usually goes with chocolate. 3 of us ate off one slice, so again big serving.
We really enjoyed eating here, their lunch and brunch menus look great too. Just like I said needs a little help with ambiance....food, drinks and dessert were very good though.