Sherlock & Tapas 177
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The new season at Geva Theatre has begun and for the 3rd year, my friends from high school, Lynn & Linda & I have season tickets. We always go to a 4:00 Saturday show, followed by dinner. Saturday's performance was "Sherlock Holmes, the Final Adventure". Lynn and I were both bored but Linda liked it. There were spots of humor that were enjoyable but it just moved too slowly. At the end, I wanted to shout out, "Kiss her already, we have dinner plans!"
We take turns choosing the restaurant and about 90% of the time, it's a restaurant that none of us have been to. Lynn's choice was Tapas 177 Lounge located at 177 St. Paul Street. I had a chicken dish with pasta, asparagus and artichoke hearts which was very good. It's too pricey for my blood but after that ridiculous extravaganza at Turning Stone, this was tame. We usually get 3 different things so we can all try each other's. Linda had a baked chicken dish where the chicken was coated in crushed taco shells, that was very good. I'm going to try making that at home - very crunchy!
The dessert though, was outstanding. Bananas Xangas is, as the waitress described to us, bananas and cheesecake mushed together, then flash fried. It's served with vanilla bean ice cream with caramel sauce. It's warm and cinnamon-y, both warm & cold. We always split one dessert but we'd all wished we'd ordered our own after trying that thing. We damn near licked the plate.
I thought the best thing about this restaurant was the fact that someone had the vision to create it. You walk in at street level, then downstairs to the dining room. I didn't even notice, but maybe the bar is upstairs. The hostess asked if we wanted to sit outside so we asked to see it - and then definitely said yes. They have installed new glass doors at the back of the restaurant, then into an outside room so to speak - with walls but no ceiling, open to the sky. It probably holds about 6 tables maybe. You are sitting outside between two buildings. You look up and it's as if you are sitting in the parking lot because you can see the back of the building - but there's a big tree over the area so it's soft and intimate in a way. The walls are rough concrete or brick maybe but painted in bright yellow and orange glossy paint, so that brightens it up. This place is right smack downtown but you sort of feel like you're in this little oasis. It's like those high rise apartments and condos that have a roof garden, except this is a basement garden.
Even the ladies room is interesting - just the bare brick walls, pipes are exposed and it's all painted with red glossy paint.
It reminded me of some of the programs I watch on HGTV - where people have the ability to see the potential in a building that others think is a wreck - good bones and all that.
It was a fun night, as always. Now the pressure is on me to decide on the next restaurant. I started researching Mexican restaurants in the city, because I don't think we've eaten Mexican food together yet.
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The new season at Geva Theatre has begun and for the 3rd year, my friends from high school, Lynn & Linda & I have season tickets. We always go to a 4:00 Saturday show, followed by dinner. Saturday's performance was "Sherlock Holmes, the Final Adventure". Lynn and I were both bored but Linda liked it. There were spots of humor that were enjoyable but it just moved too slowly. At the end, I wanted to shout out, "Kiss her already, we have dinner plans!"
We take turns choosing the restaurant and about 90% of the time, it's a restaurant that none of us have been to. Lynn's choice was Tapas 177 Lounge located at 177 St. Paul Street. I had a chicken dish with pasta, asparagus and artichoke hearts which was very good. It's too pricey for my blood but after that ridiculous extravaganza at Turning Stone, this was tame. We usually get 3 different things so we can all try each other's. Linda had a baked chicken dish where the chicken was coated in crushed taco shells, that was very good. I'm going to try making that at home - very crunchy!The dessert though, was outstanding. Bananas Xangas is, as the waitress described to us, bananas and cheesecake mushed together, then flash fried. It's served with vanilla bean ice cream with caramel sauce. It's warm and cinnamon-y, both warm & cold. We always split one dessert but we'd all wished we'd ordered our own after trying that thing. We damn near licked the plate.
I thought the best thing about this restaurant was the fact that someone had the vision to create it. You walk in at street level, then downstairs to the dining room. I didn't even notice, but maybe the bar is upstairs. The hostess asked if we wanted to sit outside so we asked to see it - and then definitely said yes. They have installed new glass doors at the back of the restaurant, then into an outside room so to speak - with walls but no ceiling, open to the sky. It probably holds about 6 tables maybe. You are sitting outside between two buildings. You look up and it's as if you are sitting in the parking lot because you can see the back of the building - but there's a big tree over the area so it's soft and intimate in a way. The walls are rough concrete or brick maybe but painted in bright yellow and orange glossy paint, so that brightens it up. This place is right smack downtown but you sort of feel like you're in this little oasis. It's like those high rise apartments and condos that have a roof garden, except this is a basement garden.
Even the ladies room is interesting - just the bare brick walls, pipes are exposed and it's all painted with red glossy paint.
It reminded me of some of the programs I watch on HGTV - where people have the ability to see the potential in a building that others think is a wreck - good bones and all that.
It was a fun night, as always. Now the pressure is on me to decide on the next restaurant. I started researching Mexican restaurants in the city, because I don't think we've eaten Mexican food together yet.
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