[restaurants] mesa grill
Jan. 28th, 2010 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reikaI've resisted the lure of the Bobby Flay restaurants for years. I have no problem watching his shows on tv, true, but there was something about his style of cooking that didn't draw me in. But yesterday, mostly out of the prodding of friends, I willingly went in and ate at Mesa Grill, and gosh darn, I actually enjoyed it.
I picked the spicy salmon tartare, pan-roasted chicken, and the chocolate peanut butter flan. I was thinking that I made a mistake ordering the chicken instead of the mahi-mahi, but that entree was really good. The chicken skin was crisp, and the meat was juicy and flavorful. A good roast chicken is the litmus test of a good cook, and Bobby Flay's was spot on.
If I have to nitpick, I'll say that I didn't care for the obsequious waitstaff. I think our server came by to ask how everything was just as soon as we received each new course. We told you we're okay five minutes ago man, we're still fine.
The NY space is very nice, and I suppose as his flagship restaurant, it has to. I appreciate restaurants where my dinner companions and I can actually have conversations where we don't need to yell.
Recommended.
I picked the spicy salmon tartare, pan-roasted chicken, and the chocolate peanut butter flan. I was thinking that I made a mistake ordering the chicken instead of the mahi-mahi, but that entree was really good. The chicken skin was crisp, and the meat was juicy and flavorful. A good roast chicken is the litmus test of a good cook, and Bobby Flay's was spot on.
If I have to nitpick, I'll say that I didn't care for the obsequious waitstaff. I think our server came by to ask how everything was just as soon as we received each new course. We told you we're okay five minutes ago man, we're still fine.
The NY space is very nice, and I suppose as his flagship restaurant, it has to. I appreciate restaurants where my dinner companions and I can actually have conversations where we don't need to yell.
Recommended.