Second one in the list of restaurants that I'm visiting. The original plan was to go to Hatched but unfortunately, it's closed on Monday. Thus, we went to Jone the Grocer instead.
Jone the Grocer is quite a funny place. It is both a market and a restaurant. It sells products like wine, canned food, cheese imported from Europe at crazy prices and provides breakfast, lunch and dinner at its restaurant (at a more reasonable but still rather steep price).
And the people accompanied me this time is a lovely couple:
Oh, I feel almost obliged to put this one up
Here's the food. Pretty expensive but well worth the price. It's fine dinning with a somewhat affordable price.
What I ate. Flavor is well balanced. A little sweetness from the pickled beet and a tad of sourness from the cream. The fresh spice (or vegetable) provided just enough crunchiness to balance out the texture. Though I REALLY regret not asking for medium rare. Medium is just too dry which brings me to another point: I think the meat patty was frozen. Come on! This dish cost me about 30 bucks, can't you guys at least don't freeze the patty (I may be wrong in this, maybe it's just the medium that made it this way)? Anyway, a dash of pepper is suggested before digging in. And the chips that comes with this is cold and oily and salty and seems not to be really very fresh. So you may want to leave it be or maybe try just a bit of it (unless you have some compulsive disorder to finish your food like me).
Should have made this picture brighter... Anyway, surprised that this dish actually made Meng full. Thought he will definitely ask for another serving of something else. He looked so starved when we arrived...
Love this picture! Anyway, looks to be quite unimpressive to my opinion. Breaking it down, there isn't really much to this dish. But its consumer (am I even using the right word?) seemed to have enjoyed it so I am going forward with the assumption that it is not bad.
I love the ambiance of this place. Perfect for social gathering. The price is a little too expensive for my liking but I'm going to let it slide because the food is generally enjoyable. Not a place that I'll commonly visit but I'll probably enjoy going there once in a while.
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