We’ve been by Oliver’s Twist a million times and finally made it in on a cold night in December. We were looking forward to comfort food and from the previous reviews we’d seen, though Oliver’s Twist would be the perfect spot. Unfortunately, we were disappointed with our experience.

We started off with the garlic truffled popcorn and it was indeed a taste treat,definitely the highlight of our dinner. Next we tried the tomato cappuccino with mini grilled cheese sandwich. Decent tomato soup, but it could have been Campbell’s from a can.

We rounded out our tasting dinner with the blue cheese-bacon stuffed dates with marcona almonds and warm tomato vinaigrette. Good lord, how could something with such amazing ingredients go so horribly wrong?!?!? Ugh. The dates were mushy and tasted like a salt lick. You could not discern the bacon, nor the blue cheese flavor. Forget about trying to find the subtlety of the tomato vinaigrette.

Next time, we’ll go to Stumbling Goat instead.