My husband and I went to try out the new restaurant at the Promenade. Beautiful place, servers are trained well to suggest items and apps on the menu.
Paella is not one of the greats. I had tilapia and it was delicious, but this really is an ala carte menu, no vegys or salad, not that that is important but a $3.00 piece of fish is not worth $21.95. Nothing for children. GREAT MOJITO!

I checked this place out a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was WELL WORTH reviewing!

When you walk in the door of this restaurant you can’t help but feel welcomed. The warm paint colors splashed all over the walls and the waterfall next to the decorated bar made me excited to see what the menu had to offer. We sat down in a round booth and were greeted immediately with bread and water. Then I looked at the menu….You can say that I was extremely excited to see what the food was like because it was all described deliciously on the menu.

We decided to start off with the trio of oysters and a pair of oyster shooters. The oysters were kind of pricey and I actually enjoyed the cheapest of the three the best. They were served with a champagne mango mignonette that was one of the best I have ever had!

To go with our oysters we each picked 2 drinks, I had the Caipirosa de Fresa with fresh strawberries, vodka, muddled limes and sugar and my boyfriend had the Caipirihna, Brazil’s classic drink, with rum, muddled limes, sugar and freshly squeezed lime juice, garnished with a stick of sugar cane (the real deal!). We were both pretty impressed.

Then we went with the trio of empanadas (we had a hard time choosing one of anything because everything looked so good!). The fillings were duck, beef, and shrimp filled inside a flaky pastry shell and fried. My favorite was the duck but they were all tasty!

Then we went on to our entrees which were amazing (I know that I have said that many times now, but I truly believe it!). I had the Pan seared tilapia with yucca crust and corn and lobster cream sauce. It was a perfect balance of salty and sweet with the crust of the fish and the creamy corn & lobster sauce. I would highly recommend it! My boyfriend ordered the Churrasco a la Parrilla which was grilled skirt steak with stir fried rice with sweet plantain and lobster and a DELICIOUS braised garlic mojito sauce. If your mouth is watering, it should be! It was perfectly cooked medium rare but the sauce that it was paired with was the perfect accompaniment to the seasoned meat. The fried rice was nothing to sneeze at either.

Needless to say, this restaurant was EXACTLY what the Promenade Shops needed, a beautiful delicious restaurant that I can honestly say was one of the best meals that I have had in the valley!!