I have heard Albert's mentioned among the city's fine restaurants. But it still sounded a little suspicious. We usually do fast food at the zoo, and the options are pretty depressing. But we were tired and hungry as we came out of monkey land so we decided to give Albert's a try.
Decor: dated
Service: took a while for them to pay attention to us
But WOW! Once the food came it was shockingly good.
Bread: very delicious warm sourdough. CH thought there was too much sourdough starter/flavor, but I rather liked it.
Appetizer: I got the cauliflower au gratin (had some delicious grated gruyère and seasoned bread crumbs). Tasted fresh, if not dietetic. Really liked it. Crispy baked gruyère crust, à la French onion soup, is one of my faves to peel off of a dish.
Entrees: CH liked his bbq chicken pizza. SuperBoy's pizza looked fine, but he'd filled up on bread and food from our knapsack while we were waiting for food to arrive.
My Farmer's salad with salmon: spectacular! Really, one of the tastiest salads I've had in memory. Delicious seasoned al dente butternut squash, very nice goat cheese (Laura chenel?), delish salad greens, very nice piece of grilled salmon, crunchy sunflower seeds and then julienned radishes for color. The dressing was a basic Asian ginger, but altogether the salad was wonderful. Would happily eat that again at the park, if only it didn't involve sitting and waiting for food, something that is still not SB's fave thing!
And they even have COCKTAILS at the park, but of course while I'm on boy duty that's not for me!
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