Rita W.
Yelp
Nice and chill interior and exterior, great cocktails and flavorful food! I heard great things about Little Sister's beef tartare, and was so excited to try this dish last week, but they took it off the menu! NOOOO!!! Anyways, we ended up trying the following -
Bo Tai Chanh - lime marinated raw beef, eggplant pickles, Vietnamese herbs, grilled baguette. Sounded the most beef tartare-like dish because of the raw beef, and it was pretty good. There were so many of the herbs that it overpowered most of the dish. It looked like a salad! My friend really liked the baguette portion, and it did go quite well with some of the beef plus veggies.
Salmon Crudo - Coconut lime chili vinaigrette, lotus root, herbs. LOL, it looked so similar to the Bo tai chanh! Lots of greens on top. The salmon portion was really good though, but again, the other stuff overpowered most of the salmon.
Nem Nuong - grilled pork spring roll, red leaf lettuce, mint, carrot, cucumber, house sauce. We expected a nice peanut sauce as that's what the sauce looked like, but ours wasn't really flavorful. The rice paper roll was alright. There was a nice crunchy bit that gave it some texture. Very refreshing dish or side.
Shaky Shaky Beef - watercress, baby tomatoes, burnt butter soy. This is a dish with some rice that tastes similar to flavored omurice rice, and a salad. The beef itself was cooked quite well, but the beef and the sauce on the beef was super lemon-y! Somehow I didn't get that from the description, and I can't do certain citrus stuff (I developed an aversion toward certain lemon and orange scents/flavors when I got pregnant). It was super lemon-y throughout, as if lemon juice soaked through all the beef. I let my friends take most of this dish as I just couldn't eat more than a couple pieces.
Hatori Hanzo - pretty good whisky based cocktail.
We all thought the food was alright. Everything sounded better than it actually was, so perhaps they were having an off day? Is the shaky shaky beef to be that lemon-y or is it my taste buds? Anyways, we enjoyed the atmosphere here, but the food for what it is was pricey in comparison to how much we enjoyed it.