Last night four of us took advantage of the Taste of Shokoe event that is going on with restaurants in Shokoe Slip and Bottom. We met for a drink at 5 at Havana 59 - I have not been i that place for years and I am happy to report it is the same as it always been. It was happy hour and they had $4 mojito's and I have to say that they do have the best mojitos I have ever drank. We didn't take advantage of it - but they did have about 5-6 appetizers for $4 each and $3 draft beers.
We had reservations for 6 pm and there weren't many people there when we arrived - but it had filled up by the time we left around 7:30. We took advantage of the Taste of Shokoe and ordered the 3 course meal for $30. The appetizer that I ordered was a bbq shrimp with stone ground grits. It was very good with three large shrimp and the sauce had a bit of spice and was quite good. Others at the table ordered BBQ'd oysters, Beef Tips, and a tomato tart with duck confit. Everyone enjoyed their appetizers.
For dinner I ordered the housemade Fettucine with bacon, crab, and chives. It was really good - with the bacon cutting the richness of the cream and crab. Though it was very filling and rich. I could only eat about half of the serving. Very good though. Two of the others got the lobster mac and cheese and they enjoyed it. My hubby got the skirt steak with garlic spinach and a mushroom sauce. I tasted it and it was perfectly done and the sauce was great.
For dessert two of us got the coconut cream pie - which was more like a cheesecake with a chocolate bottom. It could have used a bit more coconut taste to it - but it was still good. Others had chocolate creme pudding and enjoyed it. Everyone agreed that the dinner was very good and for $30 it made it even better!
I highly recommend you take advantage of the Taste of Shokoe deals. I would go try others if I had some more free time.
Has anyone else tried the special menus for this?
Friday, August 13, 2010
Monday, August 9, 2010
Stuzzi - Part Two
Saturday night we went out with some friends of ours to Stuzzi for dinner. We arrived around 6:30 and were seated within 5 minutes - didn't even have time for our drink at the bar to be drunk! The restaurant didn't have any of the a/c problems that I had been reading about....and I really love the transformation from when it was 1 North Belmont. We ordered two appetizers, the eggplant crostini and the mozarella friti. The crostini was $3 and there was only one crostini on the plate. It was good - but really hard to share with 4 people! Felt like our Waitress should have mentioned that we would have ordered two! The mozarella was really fresh and yummy...the breading very light. We enjoyed that. It was served on fresh tomato's -which I pushed aside for the others to enjoy. (don't do tomato's or mayo!!)
We decided to share two pizza's and a pasta for dinner. I enjoyed the italian sausage and rapini one on my last trip so I suggested that one, and Mike picked a littleneck clam white pizza. The bucatini pasta was one I also wanted to try. We ordered the baked olives as well. The pizza's came out very quickly and were both quite tasty. There were literally clamshells on the pizza - and it had the right amount of garlic to make it great. The sausage one was a good as I remembered - could use more rapini though.....I love greens! The pasta was v. good - my favorite. The sauce was tomato and pancetta. The noodles were al dente and paired well with the sauce. I want to go back for just that! The baked olives were interesting and very good. We ordered a bottle of sangiovese to go with dinner and it was a bargain at $25 a bottle.
We were done with dinner by 8 and still felt we had some time before going home so we walked over the Secco the new wine bar on Carytown. We waited for a table for about 15 minutes - but got a glasss of wine to tide us over - I had the Sauvignon Blanc - quite good, very crisp and nice on a summer evening. When we were seated Mike ordered two desserts the white chocolate with olives (yes as weird as it sounds) and the rice pudding. Did not like that all....reminded me of halvah the middle eatern dessert. The wine was good which is why we went there - definitely not a dessert destination though. I would like to go back and try their other food - it looked intriguing. Great cheese selection on the menu too.
Going to Lulu's on Thursday night for a Taste of Shokoe - haven't had dinner there yet.
We decided to share two pizza's and a pasta for dinner. I enjoyed the italian sausage and rapini one on my last trip so I suggested that one, and Mike picked a littleneck clam white pizza. The bucatini pasta was one I also wanted to try. We ordered the baked olives as well. The pizza's came out very quickly and were both quite tasty. There were literally clamshells on the pizza - and it had the right amount of garlic to make it great. The sausage one was a good as I remembered - could use more rapini though.....I love greens! The pasta was v. good - my favorite. The sauce was tomato and pancetta. The noodles were al dente and paired well with the sauce. I want to go back for just that! The baked olives were interesting and very good. We ordered a bottle of sangiovese to go with dinner and it was a bargain at $25 a bottle.
We were done with dinner by 8 and still felt we had some time before going home so we walked over the Secco the new wine bar on Carytown. We waited for a table for about 15 minutes - but got a glasss of wine to tide us over - I had the Sauvignon Blanc - quite good, very crisp and nice on a summer evening. When we were seated Mike ordered two desserts the white chocolate with olives (yes as weird as it sounds) and the rice pudding. Did not like that all....reminded me of halvah the middle eatern dessert. The wine was good which is why we went there - definitely not a dessert destination though. I would like to go back and try their other food - it looked intriguing. Great cheese selection on the menu too.
Going to Lulu's on Thursday night for a Taste of Shokoe - haven't had dinner there yet.
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