longmontfoodie

We’ve had many different breakfast and lunch dishes here; all great so far! Salads (esp the Caesar) terrifict, the best hamburger in town, really unusually good staples like the BLT. They use unexpectedly tasty ingredients in some ubiquitous dishes that make for pleasant surprises. Everything is always very fresh as well, nothing frozen or prepared ahead. Fun atmosphere, friendly staff.

From the decor to the menu offerings this is not a fancy place but the menu contains what you would expect and the food is reliable and consistently good. Pho is good but a bit heavy on onion (that’s good or bad depending on your taste). Noodle bowls are all very good, the grilled food in the noodle bowls is tasty! Vietnamese egg rolls are yummy. They deliver very reliably if you are fortunate to live close enough…I think their radius is 3 miles. Nice people running the place, too.

The meal started off on the wrong foot, and just never seemed to regain its footing…

I was eating alone so I sat at the bar…asked for a beer to begin with, and was served a Stella Artois as flat as tapwater. After I pointed it out to the bartender (shouldn’t he have noticed when he poured it?) he was nice enough to take it back and bring me a bottled beer from their limited selection. A few minutes later, a manager came along and removed half of the taps…they must have been having some problems.

The pancetta-wrapped scallops appetizer was one (1) scallop wrapped with a scrawny slice of American-style bacon. For $12.95. I was hungry, so I ate it and moved on to a steak for the main course.

The NY Strip steak was OK — had more gristle than a nice steak should usually have, but it was certainly the high point of the meal.

Busy place, seemed to have many families (President’s Day weekend) and a few after-work types. Quick, polite serivce and very good meal!