Current mood:	frustrated
Entry tags:	restaurant review

Salt
A couple weeks ago Darra and I went out to Salt for dinner to celebrate my 30th birthday, quite belatedly. At any rate I had always heard good things about Salt and had wanted to try it, but they have nothing vegetarian friendly on the menu so Paul couldn't take me. The meal started out great and got less great from there. Not that anything was horrible, but the appetizers were definitely the highlight of the meal.

We started out with the duck fat french fries, which is what everyone talks about in regards to this restaurant. They were quite yummy. I wouldn't have been able to say that they were fried in anything other than regular oil though. They were seasoned nicely and were served with three aolis: malted vinegar, chipotle, and truffle. I really only liked the chipotle. I didn't like the flavor of the vinegar at all, and although I liked the flavor of the truffle I didn't like it with the french fries.

We also had the honeydew melon and goat cheese salad. I thought it was even better than the french fries. Whatever dressing they put on it was amazing. It was super yum!

For dinner I had wahoo, which was served with quinoa salad. It was okay, but nothing super special. Darra had the pork tenderloin, which she seemed to enjoy and I had a bite and also thought it was good.

For dessert Darra had the bread pudding and I had a grilled pecan pound cake. Darra said hers was good, but not as good as her mom's. My dessert was definitely the low-light of the meal. The flavor was pretty good, but even though the cake was soaked with Grand Manier it was insanely dry.

All in all the meal was pretty good. I would go back again, although it probably won't be any time soon since Paul can't eat there.