Nota Bene

I made a reservation here a couple weeks ago with Open Table and 7:00 or 8:30 came up - not exactly convenient when the Nutcracker ended about 7:15. I chose 8:30. We were pleasantly surprised when we showed up for 7:45 and they seated us right away!

Things started well with some yummy brown bread and good olive oil for dipping.

For an appetizer, Ian really liked the Tunisian octopus. The octopus was light, perfectly cooked and not all that octopus-y (so much so that I even liked it). My red curry lobster bisque with coconut milk and lime was also good and a rather large serving.

For main courses, my braised short ribs didn't even require a knife to eat and were excellent. The accompanying cucumber, pickle, lettuce salad on the side was a bit weird and probably designed to push people toward getting the sides "for the table".

Ian's seared tuna was surprisingly so-so. No major complaints, but Ian felt that he's had better. The sides were good - chickpeas and peppers.

For a side for the table - we went with onion rings. A good concept - lots of very thinly sliced onions in a light batter and deep fried. They suffered from far too much salt though.

Dessert was decent - my sticky toffee pudding was adequately sticky toffee like and the rum butter ice cream was good. Ian's molten chocolate lava cake was molten-y with a surprising orange flavor on the inside. Grand marnier banana ice cream added to the whole thing.

The evening wasn't all that cheap with dinner, a small glass of wine, tap water, tax & tip setting us back about $150.

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