Dear Harlee,
I have to be fair in my review, which is why I can only give you 5 stars. So let me spell out to you where they all came from.
* Atmosphere: Nice place inside, has some outside seating maybe I forget. We ate inside. A cute cafe on the long side so you do get some separation from other tables. Seems like owners had fun decorating. Feels modern - I like old school more, but 'tis what it is. No deductions
* Staff: We were seated pretty quickly and we had a very nice waitress the whole time. She was honest about upcharging for a drink sub (coffee whiskey for vanilla vodka or something like that) and any questions we had... well let me say I had questions about dessert and she asked MULTIPLE people in back about what they thought! So given how willing she was to help us out, stopping by, refilling water without asking, always smiling... No deductions
* Value: I saw photo of the ahi tuna app in the photos here. Waitress even said she'd have that as a meal. It honestly was a pretty good size for an app. My friend had a burger, and I'd say that came out on the more expensive side of things. Martinis also rather expensive - so let's call the restaurant "midgrade" in terms of you gotta pay a few extra bucks and I suppose that reflects back in the quality of atmosphere, food ingredients, etc. So maybe not QUITE 5 stars in the value department...
* Food - entrees: Tuna was good but seared a bit beyond rare to about medium. Perhaps I should have asked if they could cook it less - I wasn't expecting that. Avocado was nice. My friend's burger was tasteless though - just beef. She wanted me to pass along how important it is to have the Bleu Burger with the buttermilk dill sauce, so I will pass along how much that may alter your burger experience. I just had a bite of the meat and mentioned I can make a better burger myself by just mixing some spices in with the ground beef. So we're definitely down to 4 stars now, and maybe a bit below that... but the one thing that really caught my eye when I arrived was
* Food - dessert: The menu's right there on the table. It's HUGE. Like 15 different desserts. Like a diner but a restaurant. So okay, I ordered the tuna app in order to have a light meal to save room for dessert. One problem. There was cookie dough marshmallow chocolate cake, and then there was blackout dark chocolate cake. Both of these sound fantastic. I decided that since I couldn't decide, I'd have the first one here at the restaurant and then maybe bring the second one home with me (where I have milk in my fridge) and try it out. Okay, two problems. The cookie dough cake IS SO UNBELIEVABLY FREAKING GOSHDARN DELICIOUS that I just stuck my face on the plate, growled my friend away from it, and proceeded to stuff my entire body with the cake slice and lick the plate clean. And then ordered a second slice and did the exact same thing. The creamy cookie dough and the dark chocolate and the frosting and the chips and the whipped cream and the marshmallows and I WANT TO BUY ENTIRE CAKES OF THIS AND EAT THEM THE REST OF MY LIFE IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER FOOD
So in conclusion, 5 stars and I will be coming back for cake every couple of weeks for the rest of my life. read more