Great night at Davanti Enoteca (Carmel Valley/Del Mar): Review

Third or fourth time at Davanti. One has to be careful with the menu. The giant ravioli dish is literally one ravioli for $10.  But we did very well tonight - delicious and copious and not too expensive.

JustLikeMeTwentyYearsAgo came along and we each had some of the following:
--Tenuta Luisa Pinot Grigio (researched the wine list beforehand, and found sites saying it was much better than your avg. pinot; I'd still like something fuller bodied but this was very good; better than the sips of falanghina and frascati that the server kindly brought for me to sample first)

--tomato/burrato/pesto salad with grilled bread: very delicious, nice portion; tomatoes were actually whole roasted golf-ball size tomatoes, rather than slices of cold heirlooms.

--roasted cauliflower: I had delicious roasted cauliflower the first time I went there, but this was a totally different preparation. Still, it was excellent and substantial.

--cavatelli: very light, and a perfect size for two people to share as a 3rd course. Tasty. Great crispy vegetables as a counterpart to the soft pasta.

--Salmon special. Well-cooked with some nice cubed salsa-style veggies and possibly fruit underneath (by this part of the meal I didn't notice what they were. They weren't astonishing in that I noticed each flavor, but they were tasty in a salsa kind of way.)

Walked around the mall afterwards to work some off and got a free cookie for Towne Bakery's 1st anniversary, along with a frosting shot for $1.25 (tasty). The outdoor seating is great too now at the mall. Who needs a different "main street" in Carmel Valley? (No to One Paseo!)

Got parking pretty easily too, at 7:30 on a Sat. night in the crazy Ralph's shopping center. Bonus!

Davanti is super-fun and delicious.  Love it on girls' nights!

Katana (Carmel Valley)

Got the Konami roll and three stooges tonight. Both were tasty, but almost the same (they were on sale, though.... :)).  Not too heavy - both with spicy tuna, cucumber, and then salmon on konami and salmon/whitefish/tuna and "mustard" on the three stooges, though it was very subtle. Would order either again.

Ohana Cafe (La Jolla): Hawaiian Restaurant Review: Best Hawaiian Food in SD?

Stumbled into Ohana Cafe at the corner of Pearl St. and La Jolla Blvd. because it is near the alltime best eyeglass repair store, 20/20 Eyeglass Repair.

Decided to give it a try, have been craving some mahi mahi w/mac salad.

They didn't have mahi, and I decided mac salad would be too heavy anyway.

Got plate lunch with grilled salmon and brown rice; I got to pick one side (gave the seaweed somen a try) and they also gave some salad.

Can someone say: BEST HAWAIIAN FOOD IN SAN DIEGO? I mean I haven't tried every place, but it's a lot better than L&L, Kealanie's and other places I have tried.  Super good.

Perfectly cooked salmon

Very good spring mix with a nice light dressing

Seaweed somen: green glass noodles and seaweed: RIDICULOUSLY TASTY - this is some serious (healthy) comfort food.

Ohana Cafe is the kind of place my blog is all about!!!

Only $9.99 for the plate - a bargain for this quality. And cooked with a lot of aloha!  They also have shaved ice, Hawaiian ice creams, etc.

Twenty-Five Forty (Old town): Restaurant Revisit Review

Went to Twenty-Five Forty recently with SuperBoy (it was supposed to be a date but the babysitter couldn't come).

Quick report:
--Service a little slow to start as usual, but they're working hard to make the good food

--Bread basket: just as delicious if not more than usual; SB's eyes lit up when he tasted the corn bread mini-muffins and he kept taking more bread

--Zucchini soup: blander than the soups I've had there before, but ok

--Side salad: not as good as I remembered, ok. 

--Eggplant parmesan ravioli (minus bacon): SO GOOD. They make the best fresh pasta here. Sauce was delicious too. Not a huge portion, but would get again.

--CH got rigatoni and enjoyed it a lot. He also got bratwurst with fresh sauerkraut and he seemed to like that too

--SB's grilled cheese sandwich: a good buy for $10 (since it's not only for kids). He got cheddar only. Was grilled on a delicious baguette/panini roll, with good cheddar; fresh steakhouse fries on the side; and some spring mix.

--Shoyu cosmo. Very tasty. Couldn't tell the difference between that and a real vodka cosmo.

So a couple of missteps tonight, whereas I never had anything less than superlative here before. But we would still come again.