d bar- restaurant review

Hi guys! So tonight I went to d bar restaurant on 17th street, Denver! Here are my thoughts on the restaurant:
Crue Fries: My appetizer of choice at d bar is the crue fries. They are d bar's classic garlic parm fries drenched in homemade ranch dressing, melted cheese, chives, and bacon. I like these a lot, but, like many things on the d bar menu, they are heavy in calories. When ordering this, remember that it's FILLING! My family of four and I had one order and it was more than enough! Also, this is EXTREMELY SALTY, if you don't love salt as much as I do, I wouldn't recommend this. Overall, this is a good choice if you are a lover of all things cheesy, creamy, and salty!

For the entree, the meals that we had between the four of us were steak frites, sliders, baked mac&cheese, and the soup(tomato) and sandwich(grilled cheese). I had the steak frites and it was great! The steak was really tender and perfectly cooked. The only thing I didn't like about it was that the fries were the same ones used for the base of the crue fries, so after that, the fries tasted pretty plain, but they were still pretty good. The kobe sliders were ok. The meat and buns were perfectly cooked/toasted, but the cheese on them was too mild for me and I couldn't really taste it. Overall, they were good but a little bland. The soup and sandwich would have to be my least favorite entree that we got. The sandwich was good, but, again, the cheese was very creamy and somewhat tasteless. The soup was okay, but it was supposed to be tomato soup and it was cream based, which didn't give it the strong tomato flavor that I was looking for. The mac&cheese, on the other hand, was AMAZING! The bechamel was perfectly cooked, the breadcrumbs were delicious, and the cheese was fabulous. There was literally nothing that I could find bad about this dish.

Incase you were wondering, yes, the "D" in d bar does stand for "dessert." And that is exactly what it is, a dessert bar. There is no place better for a dosage of sugar than this restaurant! The four desserts we tried were a lemon merengue tart, the famous "Cake and Shake," the molten cake, and a brownie sundae. I had the molten cake and it was definitely my favorite! The whole thing was soft and it had raspberry ice cream, tart raspberry sauce, and actual raspberries that came along with it. On the description in the menu, it says that the cake is also steamed with a truffle inside which is probably why it is so good! One of the other desserts was d bar's famous "Cake and Shake." This is just what it sounds like, a delicious piece of chocolate cake and either a vanilla or bittersweet chocolate shake. The cake is always great, but the shake really surprised me as being particularly outstanding tonight. There are also little chocolate covered espresso beans in it which very well may make all the difference. We also had a brownie sundae that was pretty good, but, above all else, it was beautiful. It was similar to your average brownie sundae, but the ice cream was strange. It looked like vanilla ice cream, but tasted like a cross between warm ice cream and whipped cream. I didn't get to taste the lemon merengue tart, but I am told that it was fabulous! It was, apparently, so great because it wasn't overly sweet. It was a tart tart! The merengue was also perfectly toasted and delicious!
So there's my review of d bar and I hope that me description of the food was enticing enough to make you go!
Side note: This restaurant is fantastic, but it is very small. They also don't take reservations, which makes it hard to get a table if you wait until 6 or 7 to go. During the week, I normally aim to get there around 5:30 to ensure that the wait won't be over 15 minutes.
Talk to you tomorrow!

2/25/11- Dinner!

Hey guys! So the on the menu today is FAJITAS! I don't always love mexican food, but this is adaptable and easily reinvented. The traditional fajita has slightly spicy meat and the standard sour cream- tomato-onion-and-cheese topping. But, because we don't have sour cream tonight, I've decided to try something different. I spread goat cheese on a flour tortilla and then piled on the goodies. Steak, tomatos, sauteed onions, and guacamole with extra extra lime!
For dessert, my sister has decided to make chocolate chip cookies. Although we love them, nestle cookies are not what she wants to try tonight. She is using a recipe from a child's cookbook, titled "Snack Attack:Return of the Munchies." This book entails many recipes for quick, easy, and healthy recipes that kids, with the help of their parents, can make. The recipe that she is using is for cherry chocolate chip cookies, but, being her age, she has decided to leave the cherries out. This recipe is very similar to the nestle recipe, but it is much smaller, with a larger ratio of cherries, which is supposed to give it the appeal of being healthy. One thing I found interesting about the batter is that it is slightly eggier than the nestle version. The finished project is pretty good. They seem to be flatter than traditional nestle cookies. and the cook time was slightly over what it needs to be. They are basically the same as nestle cookies, but the base of the  cookie has a stranger texture than the nestles. Overall, I would say these are a good alternative to the nestle recipe, but, if you can, I'd go with the nestle.
Tonight's dinner was an easy, delicious meal and I hope you try it!

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