Food

[Henry Krinkle]

Nice little meal out.




Pickled anchovy, bison pepperoni, parmesan, pickled egg, marinated artichokes, caponata and little tiny arancini.



Rigatoni with field mushrooms and spinach, spaghetti clams. The flour for the pasta is milled in house from local wheat. Sorta like what I do.



Pork chop, polenta, seared baby leeks and pickled carrots.



Panacotta with preserved rhubarb, peaches and almond biscotti.


We drank a nice little Italian rose with dinner which went really well with the pork and was great with the spaghetti clanms.



Ended the evening with a flight of Amaro, Mrs K going for the sweeter ones and predictably I chose the bitter end. The last one on my platter was Amaro noninho which is clearly the bridge Amaro for Mrs. K and I.

[geoffbot]

That looks decent.

[geoffbot]

Room service ftw

[Jato]

4 dozen. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again.
I’ll do a dozen or so on the half, the rest steamed on the grill.

[Raza]

Looks good, right? It wasn’t. Chicken fried steak with gravy. Batter had no flavor. Gravy had no flavor. I had to dump basically all the salt on the table on the steak and eggs to get any taste out of it. For all the praise they got on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, it was incredibly disappointing. Also, why the hell can no one who sells breakfast actually make loosely scrambled eggs? I don’t say “loosely scrambled” for my own benefit. It’s so I don’t get eggs with the life choked out of them.

Latke was decent and the biscuit was good, though.

[Raza]

4 dozen. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again.
I’ll do a dozen or so on the half, the rest steamed on the grill.

I’m. So. Jealous. I love clams. Especially raw cherrystones.

[Henry Krinkle]

4 dozen. I’ve done it before, and I’ll do it again.
I’ll do a dozen or so on the half, the rest steamed on the grill.

Oh. Yum.

[Henry Krinkle]

Looks good, right? It wasn’t. Chicken fried steak with gravy. Batter had no flavor. Gravy had no flavor. I had to dump basically all the salt on the table on the steak and eggs to get any taste out of it. For all the praise they got on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, it was incredibly disappointing. Also, why the hell can no one who sells breakfast actually make loosely scrambled eggs? I don’t say “loosely scrambled” for my own benefit. It’s so I don’t get eggs with the life choked out of them.

Latke was decent and the biscuit was good, though.

First, boo, what a shame.

Second- I personally think Guy Fieri is a talentless hack. He gets a lot of good, and bad and indifferent restaurants presented to him, but he is clueless. He's been here and he got all the restaurants wrong.

[Henry Krinkle]

I know I had polenta last night, but it was always in the cards for tonight and I made more than enough to grill the leftovers tomorrow. Fire roasted herbed chicken, herbed polenta and garden salad.

[Raza]

First, boo, what a shame.

Second- I personally think Guy Fieri is a talentless hack. He gets a lot of good, and bad and indifferent restaurants presented to him, but he is clueless. He's been here and he got all the restaurants wrong.

I don’t know about your assessment of Guy Fieri. Talentless? Yes. Hack? Yes. Actually, you’re spot on.

Everyone else seemed to enjoy their meals (except my friend Maria, but she never likes anything), so maybe it’s just a bad dish. But it was the second time I’ve been here and been disappointed. First time wasn’t as bad as this, though. Putting a salt shaker on the table shouldn’t be an excuse not to season your food.

It actually got me really mad, since it was my cheat day and it sucks to have a meal that’s both unhealthy and bad.