KC and I planned to watch Blue Valentine recently… but you can’t watch such a depressing movie without some food in you! We headed to a wine bar near the theater, and BeerBoor joined us for the meal.
We started off with a meat&cheese platter. The center cup is full of honey… mmm. Two kinds of sopperesatta (hot and sweet), parma, and speck each took a corner of the platter, with grapes, almonds, and peanuts in the center. Along the edges we had four different kinds of cheese; truffle cheese, a hard Italian cheese, robiola, and one that we couldn’t figure out. Asking the waiter proved not much help; he didn’t seem to want to tell us so we could seek the cheeses out on our own, grrr. Aside from that, we really enjoyed the platter, finding each component – especially the cheeses – chosen very well. I was really happy with the selection, and I know KC even remarked a few times that she’d never liked every single cheese on a platter before – until now. Yum!
KC, who’d been here before, recommended the bruschettas. This was prosciutto with a black olive butter, and I liked the salty-salty bruschetta. Even better, however, was…
melty cheese topped with honey. I really liked taking a bite of one bruschetta then the other for that salty-sweet combination that I absolutely adore. Yum! I need to start drizzling honey on top of my cheeses…
I opted to add on a salad just to be healthy, even though it turned out neither KC nor Beer Boor were particularly interested in helping me eat it. Roasted beets topped with frisee and what I totally thought was apples, but those are slivers of cheese. The cheese and beets went particularly well with each other, though I thought the beets were not good – they tasted like the canned variety, no roasty-sweetness to which I am accustomed. Boo.
Yvo says: Overall, not a bad place to grab a bite before the movie. We sat at the long communal table in the center – try not to sit on the end, as people entering tend to bump into you, which is uncomfortable – but the tables along the edges looked cozy and comfortable. The above, along with a bottle of wine and a generous tip, came to about $100. I really wish I lived closer (like walking distance) to a cute wine bar with great food like this one.
recommended
TT says
prosciutto and black olive butter bruschetta looks right up my alley!
you don’t win friends with salad.
Feisty Foodie says
But it’s beets! 😛
Hungry says
I really enjoy blue cheese topped with honey. It takes some of the stinkiness out.
T.C. says
Meats and cheeses!!
Honey on the meats and cheese. Heck, squish them two bruschettas together for a mini-sammy treat. 😛
kcijones001 says
i went back last week. the cheeses were different. NO TRUFFLE CHEESE!
skippymom says
Oh that platter looks like absolute heaven. I could eat the whole thing myself – just yum. 😀