Blue Plate August 4
Highlights:
Sea scallops
Meatloaf
Kale
Jonathan and his friend Jen were visiting from Hawaii and we needed to find a restaurant for dinner. When we asked Jen and Jonathan if they had any mainland cravings Jen said MASHED POTATOES!!! So the hunt began.... OK, it wasn't so hard to find a restaurant serving mashed potatoes (but we also wanted to stay pretty local).
The first restaurant that came to mind was Liberty Cafe. Since they change their menu daily, Nino called and primed the hostess with "There may seem like a really weird question but ..." before asking if they were serving mashed potatoes that evening. No luck. Next on the list was Blue Plate, just down the hill from us and a restaurant we've been wanting to try for a long time. I found one of their old menus on the web and yeah, they had mashed potatoes. I wasn't surprised - from what I had heard, the restaurant served comfort food like meatloaf and go tasty cooking.
The restaurant is bigger than it looks on the outside, and even has a garden for seating, cool deor and not too loud. We started with Jambon Serrano with figs, Roasted Shrimp with lemon verbena and lemon cucumbers, and White Nectarine Salad with hazelnuts. All the appetizers were very tasty. I really enjoyed the shrimp with the strong lemon verbena flavors. I think Nino was hoping for grilled nectarines on the salad though they were just cut up raw nectarines.
As a main course, both Jen and Jonathan ordered the meatloaf and mashed potatoes. The meatloaf was incredibly tasty - smoky, meaty flavor that must have had bacon in it. Nino had his standard roast chicken (again his was to measure restaurant success) which was very tasty yet overdone. It came with Walla Walla onions and corn fritters - both tasty. I ordered the scallops with homemade linguine with tomatoes and pancetta. This dish was excellent - the homemade pasta stuck together a little but the scallops were done just right and eaten with the pasta and a sweet sauce (not exactly sure what it was), the flavors were incredible. We ordered a side of kale with chili flakes and garlic which was also exceptional. No room for dessert.
Blue Plate gets a high rating in my book. Definitely serving good, tasty comfort food. I would choose this over say Last Supper Club (same genre of restaurant but seemed to have a better selection on the menu), though Slow Club has'em both beat (but Blue Plate comes close). In this restaurant, however, you pay a little more than Last Supper Club, maybe $2 per main.
Sea scallops
Meatloaf
Kale
Jonathan and his friend Jen were visiting from Hawaii and we needed to find a restaurant for dinner. When we asked Jen and Jonathan if they had any mainland cravings Jen said MASHED POTATOES!!! So the hunt began.... OK, it wasn't so hard to find a restaurant serving mashed potatoes (but we also wanted to stay pretty local).
The first restaurant that came to mind was Liberty Cafe. Since they change their menu daily, Nino called and primed the hostess with "There may seem like a really weird question but ..." before asking if they were serving mashed potatoes that evening. No luck. Next on the list was Blue Plate, just down the hill from us and a restaurant we've been wanting to try for a long time. I found one of their old menus on the web and yeah, they had mashed potatoes. I wasn't surprised - from what I had heard, the restaurant served comfort food like meatloaf and go tasty cooking.
The restaurant is bigger than it looks on the outside, and even has a garden for seating, cool deor and not too loud. We started with Jambon Serrano with figs, Roasted Shrimp with lemon verbena and lemon cucumbers, and White Nectarine Salad with hazelnuts. All the appetizers were very tasty. I really enjoyed the shrimp with the strong lemon verbena flavors. I think Nino was hoping for grilled nectarines on the salad though they were just cut up raw nectarines.
As a main course, both Jen and Jonathan ordered the meatloaf and mashed potatoes. The meatloaf was incredibly tasty - smoky, meaty flavor that must have had bacon in it. Nino had his standard roast chicken (again his was to measure restaurant success) which was very tasty yet overdone. It came with Walla Walla onions and corn fritters - both tasty. I ordered the scallops with homemade linguine with tomatoes and pancetta. This dish was excellent - the homemade pasta stuck together a little but the scallops were done just right and eaten with the pasta and a sweet sauce (not exactly sure what it was), the flavors were incredible. We ordered a side of kale with chili flakes and garlic which was also exceptional. No room for dessert.
Blue Plate gets a high rating in my book. Definitely serving good, tasty comfort food. I would choose this over say Last Supper Club (same genre of restaurant but seemed to have a better selection on the menu), though Slow Club has'em both beat (but Blue Plate comes close). In this restaurant, however, you pay a little more than Last Supper Club, maybe $2 per main.
posted by Karen at 2:27 PM
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