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Given the occasion of our fifth wedding anniversary, we dropped off the wee one for a play date and hit one of our favorite restaurants for some grub. I offer no complaints; the food was superb, and environment and service appropriate. We hadn't been to (now increasingly famous) Lola's new location yet; it is dim and hip, and the dining area almost seems squeezed in as an afterthought around the open and quite focal kitchen. A foodie's chow house.
These foodies led off with appetizers of tuna and veal sweetbreads (those are two separate dishes). The tuna was simple: raw, cured in a blend of olives and served with a bit of them. I'll write like a food critic as I write like a music critic (and about as professionally as I might kayak or play the 'cello): this dish was precise and simple; the tuna texture and olive punch melded in an unfamiliar entourage of tactile uniformity and bright tone. I'd never ingested
sweetbreads before, so it was high time; these were lightly breaded and fried to capture the essence of the perfect overcooked breakfast potato hash. The texture was a little unusual: not quite vegetable, not quite meat, but it came with a little slice of chili on the side. [
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Now, écrivez entrées. (Apologies if babelfish doesn't conjugate correctly.) For the lady, salmon perched on cylindrical hunks of roasted tomato, with a variety of springy veg and herbs and nicely matched wheatgrassy broth. Succeeds on the criteria of "wow, that's tasty" and "wow, I wouldn't have thought of that". For the gentleman, chops of lamb suspended in Israeli cous and deep, roasted veg and tangy barbecue stylings. The meat's flavor dominated.
Overall, A++++, quick shipping, good communication; would buy from again.
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