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Hopping Napa

By "Trading David"

Dad was in town Tuesday night, so I took advantage of the opportunity to try out that place you never goto in the back of the Sanderlin center Napa Cafe. The place was very very busy which surprised me given the state of the economy and no one else appeared to have a restaurant.com gift certificate.

We started with the fried artichokes which were really good. Every piece was near perfect and it was the normally excess portions of fried food. In addition there were spiced pancetta and other add-ons that made it a very exciting fried artichoke.

We both next had the soup of the day which was french onion. It appeared to be a slighty sweet and sourish vegetarian broth which made it an okay but not stellar french onion.

Dad had the filet medallions with the port wine reduction and some roquefort spiked mash potatoes. I had a bit and it was near perfect and a stellar dish.

I had braised short ribs with a leek vegetable. I found it a little undercooked and not quite soft enough. The leeks and spinach were really good. The ribs needed some sort of sauce to kick it up a notch. The best short ribs I ever had were at the hilton millenium in new york which featured a crusty exterior near mushy interior and a sauce quite like the port wine reduction.

Dad and I both looked at the desert menu but nothing seemed compelling but it was a varied list so any sweet tooth should be satisfied.

The waiter asked if everything was okay and when presented with the pocket version of the above a correlation between time on the menu and quality of the item was apparent. So it might pay to ask how long they've had any item contemplated.

Full post as published by My Memphis Attorney! on March 06, 2009 (boomark / email).