Weekend foodie Recap 3/1

// March 2nd, 2009 // Uncategorized

While I like to eat out I also feel really guilty about doing it unless it’s during the weekend. I have had too many jobs now where eating out was so easy and I am trying to break myself of doing this by reserving the yummy adventures for the weekend with my Pumkin Wife.

So last weekend my Pumkin and I had two food adventures I want to share.

First was our Friday Night/Date Night dinner. We decided to go local and walk around union Sqaure looking for something good. And, we found something good at Cantina la Mexicana.

Cantina La Mexicana is an expansions of a burrito/mexican restaurant. They took over a space that used to be Irish Eyes, which used to be a scary bar. The once green interior of the old space was now replaced with bright oranges, reds, and wood accents. The atmosphere felt festive, clean, and well thought out. I liked a lot of the accents and playfulness provided by lighting and glass work.

We ordered shrimp cevache, a litre of sangria, chiles relleno, The Union Square Gringo(assortment of meet wrapped in cheese and corn encasings), and flan. The food was good and tasty. Sadly, the salsa and some of the seasoning was not very spicy… but the actual food made up for this. The only thing lacking about my huge portion of food was a little side salad or beans. The Flan however was amazingly huge and delicuous, image a half sheet of brownies, but in flan form.

Besides the spice, my only complaint was that the service was lowsy. We were ignored most of the time, plates were not taken away when we finished them, and it took a while to get our check. This wouldn’t have been so bad if it had not been for the fact that the owner of the resaurant was hovering over the table next to us, I think there was some local media there… hey buddy… share the love with the rest of us people who are paying for a meal.

The second meal we ate was at the Eatern Standard. This place is big in town, not just their website. They get a lot of good reviews and I was excited to try it for the first time. The atmosphere was kinda pretentious, but warm none the less.

The service here was amazing, they actually apologized for the wait on our appetizers and took them off the price for our meal. Everyone’s food was wonderful, french toast/dulce de lech crepe, but mine. I ordered the fritata and I wish I hadn’t. The portion for the fritata was very small and it was very bland and lacking character. I was expecting something with a lot of cheesey kick and perhaps some semi-burnt edges, what i got was a soggy spongey thing instead. And if that was not enough, the chorizo sausage I got with the fritata was really small and also very underspiced… pooh…

So, I hope that sharing this is helpful to others. I am going to start to put these kinda reviews and thoughts abot food here and on yelp and chow. I think that this will give me a new community of people who share some of my passions outside of my regular knitting crew…

that’s it

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