After passing by this place a few times, seeing it featured on The Food Network and having a kickball captain’s meetings close by, Caitlin and I decided to stop in.

We arrived around 8pm on a weeknight to find there to be a 45-minute wait. After the parking debacle (we had no change) and all the running around that it entailed, we were waiting. We headed to the bar, I ordered us Mojitos, but they didn’t serve them. Blah! Attempt #2? Half a pitcher of sangria. They ask for IDs, and study mine especially closely. Apparently it had expired at the end of February so they wouldn’t serve me. Joy! We take seats at the bar anyway :smiley:

After some time, our beeper goes off. Yay! We’re led to our seats, greeted by our waiter, cornered in to buying a bottle of water (kidding, just ask for tap if you want it… we didn’t actually get charged for it anyway), and asked if we had been there or had tapas before. We hadn’t so we received a quick lesson.

We ended up ordering garlic shrimp, some bacon/date fritters, seared salmon, a salad, and… crap, I forget. Anyway, it was all amazing, especially the fritters! I really like the whole tapas idea; get two to four different small dishes per person, and share. You get a taste for a bunch of different things without filling up.

By the time dessert rolled around, we still weren’t very full so we went ahead and ordered chocolate torte, and flan. I’m not big on flan, but it may have been one of the best desserts I had ever experienced.

We ended up dining pretty well, which brought our bill to ~$50ish. Not bad at all for what I’d consider fine dining!

If you’re ever around the Verizon Center, stop in. If there is a game being played, make reservations. Thank me later.

[b]9.7/10[/b] – Would have been a 10/10 if they had let me have sangria