The place was located on 50 Clinton Street, which was a street that I usually do not venture onto. Why? No other reason besides that it's far away from the area that I work, live, and hang out at. Surprisingly so, the whole street seems to under gentrification into something more elegantly bourgeois. You can see that as you walk along the street and notice many local mom & pop stores and fabric stores. A few condominiums also have developed along that street and the new stores popping up all give out a new clean-cut high tech look compared to the old stores.
Back to the restaurant:
The place was designed in an elegant way. With a bar at the front of the restaurant where one can look through the store windows to the street, the inner half of the restaurant contained many seating booths.
Dishes are all cooked at a low temperature and took some time to come out. It gave my friends and I some time to catch up with old times and to chat about each other's lives.
When the dishes came, we ordered:
Skirt steak (medium rare): Nothing too spectacular, but the steak had a slight peanut flavor and was also accompanied with peanut sauce noodles
Duck Breast: Absolutely delicious. Extremely tender, no fatty tissue, and very juicy despite beating duck breast.
Lamb shoulder, pine nut "baked beans": The meat was tender, but really salty. The baked beans was pretty interesting since it was made with pine nuts packed with a slightly sweet baked bean flavor.
For dessert, we had everything on the menu!!!! Yes, we ordered all seven. My favorite was the jasmine flavored custard with banana ice cream. Unfortunately the lighting did not make it easy to take great pics. I think it's time for me to search for a new camera to add some quality to my blog.
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