| Woodberry Kitchen |
[Jul. 1st, 2009|03:43 pm] |
Paul took me to Woodberry Kitchen for my birthday a couple weeks ago. I have been wanting to go there since it opened, but every time I would suggest going he would veto it. So since it was my birthday I finally got to win out. Although now I'm kind of sad that we went there instead of Ixia, which was my other choice, since they wound up closing last week.
The restaurant features food grown from local farms in the Chesapeake region, which is nice. We had an enjoyable meal there, but after hearing so much hype I don't think the restaurant quite lived up to my expectations. That being said I would still go back there, just with a better idea of what to expect.
There was nothing bad about our meal at all, so don't get me wrong on that count. It just wasn't quite what I was expecting. The space is mainly I think where I was thrown off. It didn't quite resemble the pictures and descriptions of it. It was much smaller than I thought it would be. There is a balcony that runs around the downstairs, which is where we wound up eating. I'm glad I think because the downstairs looked a little cramped to me. Although I would love to go back while the weather is still nice and eat in their outdoor area, which I found quite inviting as we walked through it.
As for the food, the menu is rather eclectic in my opinion. The many times I looked at the menu before I actually ate there I never could quite figure out how someone might order some of the stuff and have it go with anything else. I guess that is because it is based on local food, but it kind of seems like a jumble to have all these categories like small plates, snacks, salads, a separate oyster menu, etc. I was always intrigued by the fact that they have popcorn on the menu. I love popcorn, but it just always seemed odd to me. So of course I had to order some while I was there. It was the smallest popcorn I have ever eaten. I mean I've eaten small pieces of popcorn when the kernals have gotten all busted up into little pieces, but these were whole kernals, just very tiny. It was tasty though topped with real butter and sea salt.
For dinner I had the Roseda Farm Tavern Steak. It came out cooked to my liking, and although I generally am not a fan of sauces I really enjoyed the sauce that came on the meat. It was just enough to give it a nice flavor. The meat also came out cooked to my specification, which is always good. I didn't enjoy the accompaniment of smoked sweet potato fries, which were really more like wedges, but that is because in general I don't like smoked foods. So I can't really fault them for that. I was just hoping that the smoke flavor wouldn't be that apparent. I was wrong.
Paul had the Organic Va. Tofu with shiitake mushrooms, asparagus, green garlic fried rice, and soy glaze. He said the thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm just amused at the idea of local tofu.
None of their desserts really appealed to me. I could care less if I never see another flourless chocolate cake or flavored creme brulee in my life. These are not choices I would ever make, yet apparently they are the in desserts since they overtake just about every dessert menu everywhere at this point.
One more thing to say about Woodberry Kitchen is that I ordered iced tea for my drink and they brought me simple syrup to sweeten it with if I chose, which is far superior than trying to sweeten iced tea with granulated sugar or some sugar substitute. It never dissolves that way. So kudos to them on that.
So all in all it was a good meal. Now to get back to Dogwood sometime soon, which I've been wanting to do for awhile now too. |
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| Friend Kitchen |
[May. 26th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
Friend Kitchen is a fairly new Chinese/Thai restaurant on the Avenue in Hampden. It replaced the really scary Chinese restaurant that was there for years prior. It literally just had a piece of plywood painted with black paint tacked up as a sign. Needless to say I never ate there.
But after a long day of painting and not wanting to cook anything, Paul and I decided to order something in on Saturday. He suggested Chinese food. Our go-to Chinese place is normally No. 1 Chinese Kitchen. I wasn't really in the mood for Chinese because I was hot and it just sounded really heavy to me with all the kind of starchyish sauces that coat Chinese food. So he asked if there was anything on the Thai part of the Friend Kitchen menu that I wanted to try.
Let me first say that the Thai selections are meager compared to the Chinese choices and that aside from Pad Thai I don't think I've seen any of the things they had listed actually present on a Thai menu. I decided to order some mango chicken thing that had mangoes and chicken obviously plus there was also jicama and some jalapenos in there. The mango sauce unfortunately had that same kind of starchyish feel that I was trying to avoid, so really it felt like eating some more tropical form of Chinese food. I can't say that it was very good. Aside from the fact that it wasn't what I was in the mood for, I didn't really care for the flavor, and the sauce just seemed kind of goopy. I would never order it again.
Paul ordered General Tso's Tofu, which is our go-to order at No. 1. It was ok, but we both agreed that we liked No. 1's better.
We also had a coupon for a free order of fried crab creamcheese wontons. They were rather tasty, but I think it's kind of hard to go wrong with something like that. I will say that they did not skimp on the order for a free with purchase coupon. I was shocked at how many wontons there were. After eating them at 3 meals, there's still probably half an order left that is just going to go in the trash at this point. Unfortunately they have crab in them so Paul wouldn't help me out.
Paul said if he would eat there again if he wanted to walk and get something right away, as we usually wait for No. 1 to deliver because it's just far enough away that we don't want to walk, but otherwise we'll stick with No. 1 for now. |
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| Elevation Burger |
[Apr. 21st, 2009|10:16 am] |
I can totally not think of this restaurant without getting the song Elevation by U2 stuck in my head. Anyway, a bunch of us grabbed dinner there pre-roller derby on Saturday for Alison's birthday. She is on a quest to find a good burger in Baltimore and wanted to give this place a try. It's kind of a fast food type place, although more along the lines of Fuddruckers than McDonald's regarding the service in that you order at the counter and your food is then brought out to you at your table. Unfortunately I found the food to be more on par with McDonald's than Fuddruckers. Now if you're familiar with Elevation Burger hear me out before you crucify me for that statement. If you're unfamiliar with Elevation Burger then you should know that they pride themselves on being eco-friendly only serving grass-fed beef that is ground in store that day plus they recycle, etc. etc. None of this is McDonald's like I know. What is McDonald's like though is the ratio of meat to everything else on the burger. The patty on the burger was pretty much the same size and shape as those you see on a McDonald's burger, very skimpy. You do have the option to add up to 10 patties or something like that to your burger for more meat if you want. If you go I'd suggest at least 2. With one patty I couldn't really taste the meat. I pretty much tasted the bun and the toppings like when eating a McDonald's burger. See what I'm saying.
For those of you from the south or mid-west who are familiar with Steak and Shake the height of the burger patty is about the same, yet at Steak and Shake I still feel like I can taste the meat and am getting something cooked fresh off the grill (which it is). At Elevation Burger even though again it's cooked fresh-to-order I didn't have the same experience. The burger looked far to round and even to me to be something that was handmade in the store. I'm not saying they're lying about that, but in some respects it's all about presentation and perception.
I also was not in love with their fries. They were shoestring fries, which I normally love but only when they are still soft. These came out pretty crunchy. I'm not sure if it was because they were just overcooked period or if it is because they cook the fries in olive oil.
As you can see I was not in love with Elevation Burger. Yes if you offered me a choice between McDonald's or Elevation Burger I would go with Elevation Burger every time, but like with McDonald's unless I'm forced to eat I'll probably just skip it.
For anyone who still feels compelled to try it your options are pretty much a plain burger or a cheeseburger (only cheddar cheese not melted onto the burger), 2 types of veggie burgers or a grilled cheese. So it is veggie friendly for those of you vegetarians out there. |
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| No. 1 Chinese Kitchen |
[Mar. 11th, 2009|12:08 pm] |
I don't know if I've ever reviewed No. 1 Chinese Kitchen before, but it is our go-to Chinese place. I tried all the other Chinese delivery places in my area when I first moved there and No. 1 Chinese is far superior to any of the others in my opinion. At least in regards to the Chinese food.
They recently added Japanese food including sushi to their menu. As I don't care for Asian Taste, which is the only other local sushi place I decided to give it a try one night. I can't tell you anything about the freshness of the fish or anything like that for the sushi because since the Crohn's I avoid that. I enjoy it, but I no longer feel like I can submit my body to possible bacteria in raw fish. So I stick with the cooked fish or vegetable rolls.
I started with the miso soup, which was middling and the green salad. I usually love the green salads at Japanese places because I love the ginger dressing. This dressing was just so-so.
As for the sushi I ordered a California roll and a shrimp tempura roll. They put some weird sauce on the tempura roll that I did not like. I've never had sauce on a tempura roll and before and I can't say I enjoyed it. Plus it leaked all over the take-out container and contaminated my California roll as well. So it was harder to tell if I would have liked that normally, although the avocado seemed a bit past it's prime.
So I really cannot recommend the Japanese food from No. 1 Chinese kitchen. They may be no. 1 in Chinese food, but they should leave the Japanese food to someone else. Do try them for Chinese though, you'll like it. |
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| Roland Park Bagel Company |
[Mar. 11th, 2009|11:59 am] |
A few weeks ago Alison, Julie, and I headed over to the new Roland Park Bagel Company for lunch. It has replaced the Sam's Bagels that was previously in that location on Cold Spring.
We managed to get there right at the apparent lunch rush, and I don't think they were quite prepared to handle it. There appeared to be only one woman who really knew what was going on, so she kept having to help other people in addition to doing her own job. Plus they were apparently to busy to empty the completely full trash or wipe off the dirty tables, which was compounded by the fact that they keep the napkins behind the counter and doll a couple out to you when you pick up your food which made it impossible for us to wipe off a table for ourselves in the meantime. We wound up sitting at a crumb covered table because it was our only choice. Yuck! They did come out and take care of the tables and trash once the rush ended, but it still wasn't a good first impression. The space is nicely remodeled from what Sam's used to look like though. Much more homey with warm wooden floors.
There was a decent selection of bagels, although they didn't have my favorite from Sam's, which was sunflower. It is listed on their online menu as one of the flavors they may have in stock at some point (not all flavors are available every day), so perhaps in the future. I wound up having a wheat bagel with peanut butter. It was nothing special in my opinion. Julie and Alison both had bagel sandwiches. I'm not sure what was on them or how they felt about them. Julie also ordered the chicken matzo ball soup and I know she did not like that. She took about 2 bites before leaving the rest of it and throwing it away. I guess it was not good.
If I have a hankering for a bagel, I'll probably go back because it's the closest bagel place to my house, but that's about it. |
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| Sotto Sopra |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|07:35 pm] |
Since Restaurant Week was extended for another week by most of the participating restaurants, we decided to take advantage and try out Sotto Sopra, which had been my second choice after Elkridge Furnace Inn. I had never been to Sotto Sopra before and was surprised at the space. I had expected it to be bigger, but in fact it is rather long and narrow and felt really cramped. We sat at a table that was bench seating on one side and chairs on the other. Paul and I sat across from each other and the tables were so cramped that when Karen and Jesus arrived I had to get out and let her crawl across the bench because there was no way for her to get in on her side of the table because another table's chair was blocking it. Paul also commented that he thought it was really loud, although I didn't notice.
Three people offered to to get us water in fairly quick succession after we arrived, but once we had the water everyone disappeared. We pretty much had to hunt someone down to take our order. I never felt as if the service was bad following that, but we did have a substantial wait to get the order placed.
I started with the spinach salad, which had spinach obviously as well as walnuts, goat cheese, and a raspberry vineagrette dressing. I thought it was quite tasty. Paul had the mushroom polenta dish. He seemed to enjoy it, and I had a bite and thought it was good as well. Karen and Jesus were less pleased with their appetizers. Karen had the soup of the day. What the soup was made of is escaping me, but I do recall it was vegetarian friendly. She was not impressed. Jesus had some sort of sausage with beans and also felt it was lacking in some manner, although he didn't really express why.
The entrees seemed to fare better. I had the sausage stuffed game hen with potatoes dauphanaise and haricots verts. It was all very good, particularly the potatoes. Paul had something called gnudi, which I think is similar to gnocchi. I could be wrong though. Karen had the a dish with duck in in it, which she was very pleased with. Jesus had tortellini with osso bucco, and I think he enjoyed his as well.
The desserts were a little bit more on the miss side. They took our dessert order at the beginning of the meal and Karen changed her mind about what she was going to have. She told the waiter fairly quickly afterwards (definitely before our entrees came out), but somehow this still resulted in her receiving a sad looking dessert. She and Jesus both ordered the banana nutella crepe, yet hers came out on a tiny plate kind of thrown together looking with chocolate swirls on the plate, but not the mocha swirls. Paul had the tiramisu. He seemed to enjoy it. I tried it though, and I've definitely had better. I ordered the apple strudel, which was served with vanilla gelato. The gelato was lovely, but I didn't like the strudel that much. I admit that my dislike of the dessert is partly my fault. As many people reading this already know, I am not a fan of cinnamon. I knew there would be cinnamon in the apple strudel, but usually in that sort of thing it is minimal enough and drowned out enough by other flavors that I don't mind it. Not so with this strudel. I'm pretty sure they just dumped a bunch of cinnamon on top of some apples and baked it inside some phyllo type dough. Way to cinnamony for my taste, although other people might have liked it. Also as I mentioned previously the plates (or most of them anyway) were decorated with chocolate and mocha swirls. The mocha looked like caramel and that seemed logical for an apple strudel. Unfortunately I did not realize it was mocha until after I dragged my dessert through it. I don't like coffee flavor either. So my dessert was a big bust.
It was a decent dinner, and I'm glad I tried Sotto Sopra, but I don't think I'll be going back. I wasn't overly impressed for their normal price point. There are other restaurants I would rather eat at for that kind of money. I also found the portions to be small for the price. I know a lot of restaurants reduce portion sizes during restaurant week, but I've heard the same complaint from other people who have eaten there during normal times. Paul and I have eaten at Pazza Luna, which is owned by the same people, and we both enjoyed that much more. So we'll be taking our business back there as opposed to Sotto Sopra. |
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| Elkridge Furnace Inn |
[Feb. 5th, 2009|04:03 pm] |
Friday night Darra, Tracie, Kevin, Alison, Paul, and I headed down to the Elkridge Furnace Inn to take advantage of their restaurant week specials. It's a really nice old inn that has been kept up really well, as opposed to the Brass Elephant which I just find kind of sad because you can tell it was once very elegant but now it just looks kind of run down. There was a nice fireplace going and the atmosphere was lovely.
We ordered a bottle of wine for the table. Unfortunately our experience with the wine wasn't so great as we ordered two bottles throughout the meal and both of our first choices were out of stock. So I think they need to stock their wine cellar a little better at least with the lower to mid priced wines.
The meal started with an amuse bouche of a beef empanada. I thought it had a really good flavor and was definitely the most substantial amuse bouche I have ever been given at a restaurant. Plus I got to eat Paul's too since it had meat in it.
I think everyone really enjoyed their dinner for the most part. I definitely really liked mine. It was also nice that they didn't skimp on their proportions at all for restaurant week, which some restaurants do.
I started with the crab and cheese tart, which was huge. I was not expecting it to be nearly that big. I could have made a meal out of that tart and small side salad. Tracie also had the tart and said she thought it was a bit salty, but I didn't experience that.
For my entree I had the flank steak with bearnaise sauce and blue cheese, a potato croquette and haricot verts. The steak was nice and tender and cooked to my liking. It had a really nice flavor with the sauce and the cheese. The croquette was fine when dipping it in the sauce, but a little bland otherwise. I think I would have preferred just plain mashed potatoes. It also didn't reheat well as leftovers, but I still liked it.
For dessert I had the blackberry tart with homemade vanilla icecream. Again a huge portion and so yummy.
I can't remember all the various food items that everyone else ate, but everyone seemed pleased with their meal. Paul said the vegetarian option was a nice change of pace from the normal pasta offering at most restaurants. Tracie and Alison both enjoyed their tuna, although Tracie said she wished she had heeded the waitresses recommendation to go with medium rare as opposed to medium.
I also had some of Paul's dulce de leche cheesecake because I made him order it, it was good but not as good as my blackberry tart.
My one real complaint about the night was the length of the meal. I never felt that we were being ignored by the waitress or anything. She was around frequently and never letting our water glasses get empty, but we managed to be there just shy of 4 hours. Luckily we were enjoying ourselves and it didn't matter so much that we were having a very leisurely dinner, but I would hope things aren't always like that. I'm guessing that restaurant week and the fact that we were seated right next to a very large party (about 15 or so people) that was about 5 minutes ahead of us in ordering, eating, etc. were what slowed the meal down so much.
I would definitely go back though for a special occasion or a future restaurant week. |
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| Marie Louise Bistro |
[Jan. 15th, 2009|07:46 pm] |
Sunday night Paul, Darra, and I tried out Marie Louise Bistro which is a new restaurant in Mt. Vernon. Everything I've seen written about the place mentions that it is in the old Gampy's space. I have no recollection of anyplace called Gampy's so that never meant anything to me, but in case it means something to anyone reading this I too will tell you that Marie Louise Bistro is located in the space that used to be Gampy's.
It's a bit of an eclectic place with the front kind of serving as a cafe/coffee shop/patisserie and the back and upstairs serving as the restaurant. The food is a mix of what I would call American, French, and Mediterranean. I will say that the menu included a lot of things that sounded really good and that there are a lot of original sounding dishes mixed in with some classics like steak frites. Also of note for you vegetarians out there, they have an entire section of the menu dedicated to vegetarian entrees, which Paul appreciated.
The space is really nice in my opinion and the prices are very reasonable. I don't remember the last time I went out to a restaurant that wasn't really a bar serving food where the majority of the entrees were priced under $15.
The place was pretty empty while we were there, so I was a little put off by the service. The food came out in a timely manner, but our waitress was slow to come to the table to start and didn't really seem to take much notice of us once we got our food. She certainly never refilled my water glass.
As for the food I thought it was pretty good. I ordered the tenderloin sandwich, which was tenderloin of beef with boursin cheese on a roll. I ordered my steak medium rare and it came out as requested unlike the experience these people had. The sandwich was okay. I would have liked the steak to have a bit more flavor I think. I'm not sure why it didn't. The fries that came with it were perfect though. Crispy and salted to perfection.
Paul had some sort of tortellini in cream sauce. I don't remember exactly what it was. He liked it enough to take the leftovers home with him though, which is high praise since he will rarely ever eat leftovers.
If I recall correctly Darra had a chicken artichoke dish that was served over couscous. She seemed to enjoy it a lot and I tried a bite and also thought it was pretty tasty.
It wasn't a perfect meal, but I think I'll definitely go back especially for the price. And to try one of those tasty looking desserts in the case when we came in. |
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| The Milton Inn |
[Dec. 16th, 2008|03:25 pm] |
Friday night Paul and I headed to the Milton Inn for dinner. We had a gift certificate that was set to expire at the beginning of January, so we figured we better use it before it expired. For anyone not familiar the Milton Inn is north of the city, kind of in the country in Sparks. The restaurant is built into an old stone house. Apparently there are multiple dining rooms all with fireplaces. I only got to see the one we ate in.
The atmosphere was lovely. I enjoyed being able to get dressed up for the evening. I finally got to wear a black velvet dress that I bought 2 years ago and had yet to wear. Obviously my husband doesn't take me out to enough fancy dinners (at least not in the winter). The dress code is actually only business casual, which surprised me but I made it an excuse to get all dolled up. As I mentioned the dining room had a fireplace, which was perfect for a chilly winter night. I would definitely choose to only eat here in the winter just for that reason. There were a few Christmas decorations about, but I expected it to be more decorated for some reason.
The service was mostly good. I cannot fault them at all with keeping the water glasses filled. They apparently employ some teenage kid to do just that. The only time one of our water glasses managed to get all the way empty he was coming back through the door with a newly filled bottle to refill it. The waiter was mostly fine. He was attentive and did try to keep us updated while we waited what seemed like an unusually long time for our food. He did fail to offer us the evening's special dessert that needed to be ordered with your meal, which I know about because I heard it offered to two other tables as well as saw the woman at the table next to us eating it. It was chocolate bread pudding, so I wouldn't have ordered it anyway but it still should have been offered.
Also, according to their website they have a chef's tasting menu offered prior to the 7pm seating that pretty much has most of the stuff off the main menu, but is 3 courses (appetizer, entree, and dessert) for only $40. I specifically made our reservation for 6:30, so we could take advantage of this menu. However it was not offered to us. Perhaps if I had asked we would have received it, but I didn't and really if it's something they do they should offer.
But the food is probably why we will never go back. Don't get me wrong it wasn't bad, but it wasn't exceptional either. For the prices we paid I think the meal should have been above ordinary. Paul started out with the wilted winter salad, which was "a warm mixture of field greens, mustard greens, sliced Bosc pears,Chèvre cheese and Dijon dressing". He said he really liked it. For dinner he had the lone vegetarian option (but good for the Milton Inn for having one. So many fine dining establishments don't bother), which was wild mushroom phyllo. He thought it was good, but nothing to write home about. I had the grilled filet of beef, which was accompanied by sauteed swiss chard, carrots, and honey mashed potatoes. The steak came out cooked to my specification of medium rare, but it really didn't have much flavor. I've definitely had much better steaks. The mashed potatoes were not that great either. They were rather dry and not really creamy at all. The swiss chard and carrots were awesome though. I would have liked some more carrots as really it was like one tiny carrot sliced in half and leaned against the pile of chard almost as a garnish. I'm pretty sure that the chard was just cooked with some salt and butter, but it tasted great. Probably mostly because I do not treat myself to butter covered vegetables at home. Usually they are steamed and eaten plain or in the case of sauteing with a little garlic and olive oil. So it's a treat to have veggies cooked with butter as long as they aren't drowning it. These vegetables were cooked with the perfect amount.
We were offered the dessert tray, which I have to say wasn't very appetizing looking. As with most dessert trays fresh desserts are not sitting out. These appeared to be replicas of some sort of what was being offered and they didn't look very good. Plus I wasn't inspired by any of the choices. I don't understand the fascination with creme brulee or flourless chocolate cake. They are the staple desserts at every Baltimore restaurant and I don't really care for either of them. I decided to pass on the dessert. Although we didn't get any the table next to us did and were apparently celebrating their anniversary. I noticed that the kitchen had written Happy Anniversary with little hearts around it on the rim of both their plates, which I thought was a nice touch.
At any rate I don't think we'll bother going back to the Milton Inn. The food is not worth it for the money even though the setting is great, especially for a winter evening. |
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| Dangerously Delicious Pies Savory House Take 2 |
[Nov. 1st, 2008|09:52 am] |
I don't tend to review restaurants a second time unless it's been a really long time since we've been there and/or something drastic has changed, but since the last time we went to the Savory House it was a little odd with the band playing and them still obviously getting their legs after opening. Plus last time I didn't try the savory pies, and since that is supposed to be what this place is all about I figured I would offer up another review.
Last night Alison, Paul, and I walked over to the savory house for some pie after deciding that going out for a drink was a bad idea since the bars were all likely to be crazy seeing as it was Halloween and all. Plus it meant we didn't have to make dinner.
We found many of the same issues reported in the City Paper's recent review. One of the main issues in my opinion being that the only menu is a chalkboard in a room other than where the majority of diner's are going to be sitting. As mentioned in the City Paper's review they either need to make photocopies of the day's menu or put another chalkboard in the dining room. Our server was actually able to recite the pie's avaiable to us, but that wound up being awkward with him then immediately waiting for us to tell him what we wanted while we wanted a minute to think.
To get all the service issues out of the way at the beginning of the review, I also felt that things took a lot longer than they should have given that the pies were obviously already made. We weren't in a big hurry, so it wasn't a big deal but I don't understand why it took so long.
I ordered the steak and mushroom pie for dinner and Alison and Paul both had the broccoli and cheese quiche. They were all served with a small salad on the side of the pie. I had seen the steak and mushroom pie made on a show on the Food Network recently where the hosts of the show visited several places around Baltimore and thought it looked awesome. It did not disappoint. It was very good. Alison and Paul both seemed pleased with their meals as well.
I was not as pleased with the dessert pie though. I wasn't that impressed last time and wasn't very impressed this time. Unlike this person I don't think that Dangerously Delicious pies come anywhere close to being the best pies. Part of my problem I think is with their crust. It seemed fine in the savory pie, which perhaps is a result of being reheated before serving, but pie crust when stored in a refridgerator is like baking soda and will absorb the odors of the fridge. It was most noticeable in the actual end crust part that has no pie filling to mask it, but it definitely tasted like fridge and was not light and flaky like I enjoy my pie crust. Although again my experience of the crust on ths savory pie was quite different, so I don't know what the difference is. I had the lemon chess pie this time and was much more pleased with it than the cherry pie I had last time, although of course the crust issue lingered.
Alison had the Mobtown Brown pie which was like pecan pie topped with chocolate. I tried it and didn't really care for it that much. It had a weird texture that wasn't working for me. I know pecan pie is always sort of gelatinous, but this was gelatinous in the wrong way.
So I think perhaps in the future I might stick with the savory pies and grab dessert somewhere else. |
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| The Dizz |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|04:49 pm] |
Friday night Paul, Darra, and I went to check out the new iteration of Dizzy Issie's, The Dizz. Dizzy Issie's was sold at the end of last year or the beginning of this year and then was closed for several months while the new owners renamed it and revamped it. Anyone who watches Ace of Cakes should be familiar with this bar as it is directly across the street from Charm City Cakes and they have mentioned it many times on the show.
I only made it to Dizzy Issie's once when it was open, so it's hard to compare it to The Dizz. But I will do my best. Dizzy Issie's definitely had a dive bar feel. Although I think the patronage is still pretty much the same (MICA students drinking and older longtime area residents enjoying the food), the space is definitely different. It's much nicer looking now. The floors have been redone, the tables are now all decorated with tablecloths and candles. Upstairs, gone is the pool table and scary looking couches. It is now entirely filled with dining tables.
As with Dizzy Issie's the service was slow. I will commend them for bringing up a table out of the basement for us after we had been already been waiting awhile to be seated and it was obvious we were going to be waiting even longer. Partly I think because people were staying and drinking at their tables, and partly because of the aforementioned slow service. It's hard to turn over tables quickly when it takes a long time to order and subsequently get your food.
The food was pretty decent bar food. Pretty much on par from the one meal I remember eating at Dizzy Issie's. There is a standard bar menu and then 2 pages worth of "specials" that are handwritten photocopies stuck in the front pocket of the menu. Based on the offerings on the specials pages I'm guessing most of these specials are fairly permanent.
Paul was pleased because they had a special section set aside for vegetarians even if it wasn't that big. He wound up ordering the veggie quesadillas, and he said they were ok, but nothing great.
Darra and I both ordered the Old Bay grilled chicken sandwich. I had been watching someone eat old bay wings while we were waiting and thinking they looked really tasty, but when I saw this on the menu I figured it was satisfy my old bay chicken craving but way healthier than wings. It was a tasty sandwich in my opinion. The sandwich was served with chips, but Darra and I both ordered sides. I had sweet potato fries and Darra had onion rings. They were both good.
Not a bad option for a cheap, tasty dinner out on the town. Just don't expect to get out of there quickly. |
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| Salt |
[Sep. 20th, 2008|02:51 pm] |
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. |
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| Petit Louis |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|07:15 pm] |
Last night a bunch of us went out to dinner at Petit Louis for Katie's birthday. I had been there once before and was not that impressed with the food, so I never understood why people were always raving about it. And based on the number of people in there on a Sunday night the love has not died down. Although I totally do not understand why.
I have one thing to say to the chef at Petit Louis--Back away from the salt shaker. Seriously I don't think I have ever had so much salt in my life. It was ridiculous. Almost everything was overly salty. The only things that didn't have too much salt pretty much were my dessert (and I was beginning to worry about that) and the butter, which was actually unsalted. I would have actually liked to have salted butter because I find unsalted butter fairly bland. At any rate they have salt cellars sitting on the table so I'm not sure why they feel the need to oversalt everything in the kitchen.
I didn't order an appetizer for myself, but I had some of the calamari that Viraj ordered. It was hands down the worst fried calamari I have ever eaten. The squid itself was rubbery, it was super greasy, and the breading was soggy. And of course it tasted like it had been dropped in a salt mine before they brought it out to the table.
For my dinner I ordered the steak frites. They did provide a nicer cut of meat than steak frites is authentically served with serving a NY strip instead of the usual hangar steak. The meat was done to my satisfaction, so at least that was good. The rest of the meal was not. The french fries were so salty I could barely stand to eat any of them. I did manage to find some at the bottom of the pile that were bearable. I also ordered a side of haricots verts. Although haricots verts is just the french word for green beans, when that is on the menu they are typically the super skinny French green beans. I love those, which is why I chose to get a side order to go with my meal. Too bad when they came out they were not really haricots verts, but instead just regular old green beans. Oh and guess what they were too salty. Why they put any salt on them at all is beyond me. They should have been served with just a touch of salted butter for flavor, but instead like the french fries they were barely edible.
For dessert I had profertiroles, which if you aren't familiar is a pastry cut in half, filled with ice cream and then topped with chocolate sauce. Mercifully it was not salty at all.
The service was very good, which is a nice change from what I often experience, but that totally doesn't make up for the horrible food. I appreciate good service at restaurants, but I don't go to restaurants merely because they have good service. I go because they have good food, and in my opinion Petit Louis certainly does not. A lot of other people in our party seemed to enjoy their food to a much greater degree than I did, but I figure two not so good meals at one restaurant are enough for me not to go back.
If you want to eat French food in Baltimore, I highly suggest going to Brasserie Tatin instead of Petit Louis. There food is a hundred times better. |
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| Dangerously Delicious Pies Savory House |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|05:17 pm] |
Friday night was the monthly librarian's happy hour at The Brewer's Art. After heading down there for a couple hours a contingent of us headed up to the new Dangerously Delicious Pies in Hampden because one of my coworkers' band was playing there. Plus it gave me an excuse to eat pie.
They are obviously still working out the kinks and are not operating at their full level as none of the savory pies listed on the menu were yet available. In addition they were serving stuff off of a table instead of like an actual counter. There were no drinks listed on the menu, although some people that joined our group later got coffee so I guess they just asked. Plus it seemed they had to run in the back to ring up credit cards, which didn't really make sense. I don't know how much of this is due to the fact that they had the band set up, but given that according to their website they're going to have live music a lot of the time I would think they would be a bit more together.
As far as the pie I tried the cherry. It was okay, but definitely not dangerously delicious. I was actually rather disappointed. I've had better pie many other places. I'll definitely go back and try some different kinds, but I must say I was hoping for more. Yesterday we went to a birthday party/bbq for one of my other coworkers and instead of birthday cake there was birthday blueberry pie. (It was a crazy weekend full of librarians and pie). I thought that that pie was better than the pie from Dangerously Delicious Pies.
Other kinds of pie that were tried were
Blueberry
Berger Cookie (I had a bite and found it kind of weird. It was a custard type pie with Berger cookie somehow mixed in or the pie made to seem like a Berger cookie or something. I didn't really care for it)
Peach
Lemon (this was highly recommended)
Everyone else seemed much more in favor of their pie than I was.
Other things I hope get resolved as the kinks get worked out:
A real drink menu
Ice cream for the pie
The option to have your pie warmed up
Also according to their website on Fridays and Saturdays they are supposedly open until midnight, but they definitely seemed to be closing up shop when we were leaving at 10. So I don't know what was up with that.
All that being said I'll definitely go back as I liked the ambiance and assuming it really is going to open later on weekends it will be a nice alternative to going to out to a bar. I mean it's not as if the pie was horrible. It just didn't live up the expectations I had for it based on everything I had heard about their pies. Hopefully I'll like some of the other flavors better. |
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| La Tavola |
[Aug. 3rd, 2008|04:56 pm] |
Last Saturday Paul, Alison, and I wound up at dinner at La Tavola for the first night of restaurant week. We were going to see The Dark Knight at the Landmark Theater in Harbor East, so I figured it would be a good plan to throw in dinner at a nearby restaurant. None of the restaurant week menus at the places in Harbor East appealed to me, so we decided to try out somewhere in Little Italy.
In the several years I have been participating in restaurant week, La Tavola is the first restaurant I've been to that was only serving their restaurant week menu and not their regular menu in addition. This wasn't a problem for us since we were all planning on eating off the restaurant week menu, but I found it interesting.
They started us off with 2 kinds of bread. Both were pretty tasty, but typical for Italian restaurants. For appetizers Paul had a sweet potato soup, I had fried calamari, and Alison had some kind of thing with shrimp and polenta. Paul enjoyed his soup and although Alison didn't say anything that I can remember I think she liked hers as well. It had 6 nice sized shrimp, which I thought was fairly large portion for an appetizer. I was also impressed with amount of calamari I received. The breading was nice and crisp and not too greasy and had a bit of spice to it, which I don't see often but that I really liked. It also had a nice proportion of the rings to the whole tiny little squid, which are my favorite.
For our entrees Paul had the gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce, and Alison decided to split the lamb and the something that I can't remember the name of but was basically really large ravioli stuffed with a spinach/ricotta mixture. We were both trying to decide between the two so decided we would each order one and share. The lamb was leg of lamb cut off the bone and stuffed with egg frittata, spinach, and proscuitto. I thought it was pretty tasty. It was also served with snow peas, mashed potatoes, and mushrooms. The snow peas were good, the mashed potatoes were nothing special so I didn't eat them because I figured I had enough starch between my share of the pasta and the bread, and I didn't care for the marinade that the mushrooms were cooked in so I didn't eat them either. The pasta was pretty good too, which is saying a lot for me since I'm not much of a pasta fan.
There was no choice for dessert. Everyone got the same thing, which was a piece of some type of chocolate cake and small homemade cannoli. Based on the description I didn't think I was going to care for dessert at all because normally I don't like cannolis. I don't care for the shell because they're usually made with cinnamon, which I hate, and I don't like the filling because usually it has chocolate chips, which I'm not a big fan of either. Based on the description of the cake I didn't figure I would like it either because I thought it would be too rich. I was completely wrong on both counts. Both were awesome. The cannoli was not really a regular cannoli. It still had a cream cheese filling, but not with chocolate chips and the shell was not a typical cannoli shell but more like a pizelle or waffle cone put into a cannolli shape. The cake was more like a brownie consistency and it wasn't overly chocolatey. I don't know how to exactly describe the flavor, but it was awesome.
I would definitely go back and try La Tavola on a regular night. |
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| Mamma's Cucina |
[May. 31st, 2008|06:30 pm] |
The Thursday before we left on vacation Paul, Darra, and I tried out Mamma's Cucina, which is the new restaurant in the space that used to Allissa's in the 41st Street shopping plaza where the Superfresh is. I was disappointed when Allissa's closed because I always liked their pizza. It was different from any of the other area pizza places, and Paul and I both really liked their white pizza.
Alas, Mamma's Cucina does not seem to be any great replacement. They redid the space somewhat replacing the tables and the floor, which is now tiled instead of the industrial type carpet that was in there before. The kitchen also seems somewhat more open as well.
The restaurant is sort of half self serve and half wait-staffed. The waitress took our order but we had to fetch our own drinks and get our own salads from a salad bar. None of us actually tried the pizza, so I can't really compare it to Allissa's, but I wasn't very impressed by it on the menu. There was definitely nothing out of the ordinary available like with Allissa's. In fact I found their list of toppings very lacking. There was only the most basic of basic stuff. It was a very short list. Plus they advertise their pizza as NY style, which means that I won't like it because I really just don't care for NY style pizza, and Paul won't like it because he is part of the whole NY style pizza snob group who is convinced that you can't get good NY style pizza outside of the immediate NYC area. I think they're all full of crap because it all tastes the same to me, which is not good. I don't like my pizza to be a big pile of grease.
At any rate, what we did order was ok, but nothing great. I had the lasagna, Paul had the fettucine alfredo, and Darra had a cheese calzone, which was ricotta and mozzerella cheese. The lasagna was ok, but nothing special. Darra thought her calzone was way too cheesy. She said it needed something else besides cheese inside, but was not happy with the ingredient choices for the calzone.
So we may possibly go back on a night when we're feeling really lazy not wanting to cook or to go anywhere far for dinner, but we definitely won't be getting food from there was frequently as we did from Allissa's. |
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| Lucy's Irish Pub |
[May. 5th, 2008|07:21 pm] |
Lucy's is what was formerly Maggie Moore's. We had eaten there once when it was Maggie Moore's and were not too impressed, but we decided to check it out again now that the restaurant is under new management and has changed the menu to some extent. A lot of Maggie Moore's dishes are still there, but a decent amount of stuff has been added as well. Most importantly for Paul these new dishes include a number of vegetarian selections. I think based on looking at the menu that a lot of the dishes still seem overpriced to me, especially when a lot of them don't come with sides. I thought what I ordered was reasonable, but a lot of the other stuff was more expensive than I thought it should be.
Paul had the vegetarian risotto and I had a grilled steak salad. Paul liked his dish. Mine was pretty good too. The steak (a NY Strip) was cooked to my liking and had a good flavor. The salad part could have used a bit more in my opinion though. It was romaine lettuce topped with blue cheese crumbles, a small bit of roasted fennel, and some grape tomatoes. I think I would have liked a wider variety of veggies thrown in.
It's not somewhere I'd probably actively go again, but since it's right across the street from the Hippodrome I can see us grabbing another dinner there before a show next season. |
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| Meli |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|08:11 pm] |
Friday night Paul, Karen, and I went tried out Meli for dinner. This is the newest restaurant by the owner of Mezze and Kali's Court. It is billed as a patisserie and bistro. Meli means honey in Greek, so the decor is very honeycomb themed and many of the dishes feature honey as an ingredient.
My first impression was not that great in that it was impossible to find the host stand even with directions. They do have a separate patisserie where you can just go in and get dessert. The entrance for the whole establishment is through the patisserie. The entrance to the actual restaurant from the patisserie is a narrow doorway that doesn't really seem like a doorway you're supposed to walk through. So I asked at the patisserie and she directed us through that doorway, whereupon you then enter the bar and still not the actual restaurant. I was still trying to figure out where we were supposed to go at that point, so I had to ask the bartender. He then directed us further in where the host stand is hidden from view by a wall. Not a very good design at all.
The restaurant itself is designed on two levels. The upstairs has actual tables and is more like a restaurant, while the lower level where we were seated was more of a lounge with soft chairs and sofas surrounding small honeycomb shaped tables. Not really ideal for eating dinner.
We started with drinks. Paul got a can of Boddingtons. He had a major complaint about this in that the glass that they brought with the beer was not large enough to hold the entire beer, which is important for a beer like Boddington's that contains a widget. Karen had a glass of wine she liked, and I of course stuck with water.
They served us an amuse bouche of roasted fennel and blackberry. I didn't care for it that much, but I will say it is the first place I've ever been served an amuse bouche that was vegetarian friendly. We were also given some bread with honey butter, which was good.
Karen and I decided to split a baked goat cheese salad to start. It was various greens with a balsamic vinegarette topped with pears, almonds and a round of breaded baked goat cheese. It was good, but much larger than I was expecting. Although for the price point of $10, it should have been big. Paul started with a roasted tomato salad which was a selection of various types of sliced tomatoes in a vinegarette dressing. He enjoyed it.
Unfortunately they had no vegetarian options for entrees. The only vegetarian thing available aside from the salads was an appetizer serving of butternut squash ravioli, which is what Paul wound up ordering. The waitress warned him it was small, and she wasn't kidding. He only got 3 ravioli. Not much of a meal. Plus he said it was way to sweet for his taste.
Karen had the lavendar honey salmon, which said was good but overpriced and nothing that she didn't think she could make as well at home. I had the cornish game hen, which was ok. Some of the meat seemed a bit dry. Again nothing spectacular.
On to dessert, which we were all expecting to be spectacular given that the restaurant is really trying to get play out of their patisserie status. Unfortunately the dessert turned out to be the weakest point of the meal. Karen I decided to split the kataifi, which according to the menu was shredded phyllo dough with a vanilla custard and pistachios. What came was not what I was expecting based on the description. I think part of the problem was due to the shape of the dish it was served in. It was kind of a cup shaped bowl with a layer of the phyllo at the bottom, then a layer of custard, topped with an entire thick layer of whipped cream. The pistachios touted in the description turned out to be a sprinkle of a few pistachio crumbs on the very top of the dessert. They might as well not have been there. Because of the shape of the dish it was impossible to get all 3 layers at the same time. At the beginning all you could get was the whipped cream and custard, which didn't have much flavor. Then at the end you wound up with a large pile of phyllo dough and nothing to eat it with. It did not work well, and I think whoever wrote the review for the City Paper is on crack because they really liked this dessert and recommended it.
Paul got the vanilla Napolean. While it was better than the kataifi, it still wasn't great. The vanilla Napolean from Vaccarro's is a million times better than this one was. So the dessert was very disappointing.
The final verdict was that we were all happy we tried it, but none of us is planning on going back. |
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| Alexander's Tavern and Pitango Gelato |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|01:05 pm] |
Alison and I headed down to Fell's Point for dinner on Friday night. We wound up going to Alexander's Tavern for dinner. It's a fairly new restaurant in the space that Gemini used to occupy. The owner is one of the Gjerde brothers. The previously collaborated on several now defunct Baltimore restaurants such as Joy America Cafe and Spike and Charlie's. The other brother is now the owner of Woodberry Kitchen.
The restaurant does have several outdoor tables lining the sidewalk on Broaday. Unfortunately they were all taken when we got there, so we wound up sitting in the dining room. The door was open though, so we still got a little of the nice weather. We pretty much had the dining room to ourselves though. The bar seemed pretty busy when we walked by, but the bar and dining room are completely separated so it didn't really matter to us.
The waitress was very attentive, which was good since we were her only table. She unfortunately was not able to answer Alison's question about some of the beers on the menu, which wasn't good. She could have at least gone and looked at the bottle or asked one of the bartender's. She also failed to bring a glass with the beer, and since it was one of the Clipper City beers I found it even more offensive (and amusing) because if you've ever been on the Clipper City Brewery tour you've definitely heard Hugh Sisson talk about why you should never drink bottled beer out of the bottle.
Although the waitress was attentive the kitchen was really, really slow. It took forever for our food to come out. The waitress said that a lot of people were ordering food from the bar too, which is what was slowing things down. But I think they should be able to handle this. I mean we were the only people in the dining room with a few tables outside. What would have happened if the dining room was full and people were ordering from the bar?
For dinner I had the French Dip sandwich with Old Bay shoestring fries. I wasn't entirely pleased with my meal. The sandwich was the worst because unlike any other French Dip sandwich I've ever had the roast beef was cooked like pit beef, which meant that both the meat and the au jus were very smoky in flavor. I am not a fan of smoked foods in any way, so it pretty much ruined the sandwich for me. This was not in any way indicated on the menu and I think it probably should be since it's really not your typical French Dip that customers would expect when ordering the sandwich. The fries were decent, but not great. I love Old Bay fries, unfortunately there are very few places that do them well. Red Fish in Canton has the best (or at least they used to. I think they've changed owners twice since we've last been there so who knows what's going on there now). One of the problems with most Old Bay fries is that they just aren't seasoned well enough with the spice. This was not the problem in this case. The problem was with the fries themselves. I prefer my fries crispy and most of these weren't. A lot of them were pretty greasy and kind of undercooked in my opinion. It's too bad because they would have been really good otherwise. Aside from the Old Bay you can also have your fries plain, seasoned with their house seasoning (I have no idea what that is), or something else that I don't remember.
Alison ordered a cheeseburger for dinner. She seemed to like it well enough. I don't think she thought it was anything outstanding, but decent enough. She also had Old Bay fries with her meal. She didn't comment on them, but I noticed she didn't eat very many so I'm guessing she wasn't thrilled with them.
So not an outstanding meal. Partly I think at least on my part because I wound up ordering something I wouldn't have ordered had I known what it really was. I would be willing to go back and give it another chance if someone suggested going there, but I probably won't seek it out on my own again.
After dinner we walked down the street to Pitango Gelato for dessert. They make their gelato in house every day with organic ingredients. You can get a regular sized cup, which is a lot of gelato, with two different flavors. I got pistachio and chocolate/hazelnut. Very yummy. I was a little worried about how the combination would wind up tasting, but it worked out fine. Alison had strawberry and vanilla/chocolate chip. We sat outside and enjoyed our gelato and nice weather on a bench overlooking the square. Yum! |
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| Girls' Night Out (featuring My Thai, Liam's and Red Square) |
[Apr. 13th, 2008|01:42 pm] |
Last night Darra, Tracie, Alison, and I decided to hit Mt. Vernon for a night on the town. We started off with dinner at My Thai. None of us had been before, so it was a good place to try. The restaurant is in the basement level under the Donna's by the Washington Monument. It's actually quite large under there. I wasn't expecting there to be so much space. There were several different rooms laid out in a kind of labyrinthine fashion.
We started off with an order of the spring rolls and the summer rolls. The spring rolls were pretty typical spring rolls with vegetables and shrimp. The summer rolls were rice noodles, vegetables and shrimp (optional) rolled up in rice paper served with a peanut sauce. They were both yummy.
For entrees I had the panang curry with chicken, Tracie had the pad thai with chicken, Darra had the mussa-mun curry with chicken, and Alison had the fried rice with shrimp. Everyone seemed very pleased with their meals. Mine was good. Just the right amount of spice and good flavor. It was a little watier than I would have cared for, but it was still good. I've never actually ordered the panang curry at Thai Restaurant, which is our go to Thai place in the city, so I can't compare. I tried Tracie's pad thai and while good, I still didn't like it as much as Thai restaurant's. I have never found anywhere else that has pad thai as good as their's. I would definitely go back there though. The food was less expensive than Thai Restaurant, but the portions were not as big, so I guess it evens out.
After dinner Alison headed home, and Darra, Tracie and I decided we would go to Mt. Vernon Stable but as we were standing there saying goodbye to Alison, Darra discovered Liam's Pint-Sized Pub next door. We decided to check it out instead. It's actually in the basement of Kumari. You walk into the restaurant and then downstairs. It looked like they had a screen to put in place to keep people from wandering into the restaurant instead of the bar once the restaurant is closed. Someone even had some food from Kumari delivered to her downstairs at Liam's. It is indeed a pint-sized pub in that it's pretty tiny. We were there pretty early, so we had no problems snagging one of the few tables that exist there. They actually had a small, but decent selection of beer on tap. Even though I can't drink it anymore, it's definitely something I look for in a good bar. It definitely seemed like a neighborhood hangout kind of place as most of the people in there seemed to all know each other, but it also didn't feel uncomfortable being there like some neighborhood places can be. They had a selection of board games, so we picked up Jenga and played that for a decent amount of time. We also messed around with the cards from the Worst Case Scenario Survival Guide game. I now know what you should do if you encounter a polar bear in the wild, and apparently the answer is not to cuddle with him because he's so cute:) I definitely liked Liam's and wouldn't mind going back. Although I can see it getting very crowded and uncomfortable in there.
After Liam's we decided to head up Charles to Red Square. Red Square is probably at the opposite end of the spectrum from Liam's as far as bars go. They of course have a large selection of bottled Russian beers. I did not see any taps. They also have fancy mixed drinks. It is definitely more of a club vibe than a bar vibe. They had a dj playing pop Russian and Spanish songs. I was actually enjoying most of it. The dining room pretty much turns into a dance floor, so it was really good for some people watching. The majority of the people in there were of Eastern European persuasion. I didn't even know we had that many Eastern Europeans living in Baltimore at this point. We were all fascinated by the Eastern European girls and their clothes. Particularly one that Darra could not stop gawking at. She was wearing some really short skin tight dress that was almost flesh colored. Plus she was wearing it with a really dark colored thong, which you could totally see through the dress. Although given how short the thing was I was afraid I was going to see more than I really wanted to, especially when she started dancing. We didn't get anything to eat there, but we took a look at the menu which looked tasty. Plus all the food that was being delivered to tables looked really yummy. So we have already planned on going back for an evening of dinner, drinks, and dancing. But we've decided we have to dress much sluttier when we go as to fit in better with the Eastern European girls.
So it was a really fun evening out with the girls. And despite the evidence I did not come home drunk. When we got up this morning one of the cats had apparently knocked my purse on the floor and pulled a bunch of stuff out it in such a way that it totally looked like I had come home drunk missed the table while trying to put my purse down and spilled stuff out of it onto the floor. |
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