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Today I had a fish plate which is a served in a yellow creamy sauce which needed some hot peppers to liven it up. Sorry this blanco/gringo doesn't remember what the name of the dish was. Usually when I go to a Peruvian place it is for the Lomo Saltado, which my two co-diners ate today but today I decided to ask for a dish I've eaten here many years ago here in my pre-Yelp days when dining with my brother who was visiting from Lima and who wanted to introduce me to Peruvian food (pre Yelp days - yes this place has been here for over 10 years). Kudos to the waiter, with some translation from my Michael C, he figured it out for me.
My dish came out about 10 mins after my friends dishes did and I felt sad. However, when it arrived it was totally worth waiting for.
No problem with the service, they were on top of things. Language might be a bit of a barrier if you don't speak Spanish.
Michael J was totally besotted by Thalia playing on the telly...just sayin.
Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160
(305) 949-7757
Porterhouse Bar & Grill
Categories:
American (Traditional),
Bars
I had the vegetarian pizza which was good, but the pizza base and sauce were obviously frozen, the grilled veggies on top were good. (for $9 what can you expect).
This place apparently has 3-4-1 happy hour which we missed.
Unfortunately, the staff seemed so unhappy to be working there its not a place I would go back to.
OH...AND A HUGE THING FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. THEY ALLOW SMOKING INDOORS
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 722-8959
Yelp Elite Holiday Hangover @ Wynwood Kitchen +…
Category:
Local Flavor
That narrows it down doesn't it? Who were you random stranger?
Hugged Monica for the first time. She gives good love.
Had George shake his junk all around the table. He gives good love.
Paul got plastered with Yelp tags. He gets good love.
Finally get to meet Marqus R. Yay new Yelp friends in the flesh/
Best love of all is an awesome night out with a very cool group of Yelpers. An awful lot of love in the air.
Lots and lots of super tasty noms. At one point I was sitting there refusing food, refusing another drink thinking...Jeez..this is not the Yelp of the press reports of grabby yelpers. No. Miami Yelp is classy. We've been raised right.
Love you my friends. We know how to party, and do it with style.
Wynwood Kitchen & Bar. You guys made a total fan of me tonight with your style, your most delectable nibbles, your all-together staff and most of all, your very urban setting. It's all about the Walls.
Fence me in XXXX
The food is excellent. Tonight we were four. We ate like royalty for a little over $100. I am rubbing my happy roundy tummy.
A family size plate of appetizers to consist of Onion Bahjia, Veggie Samosa, Veggie Pakhora (a veggie fritter), Chicken Pakora, Tandoori Lamb
Dal Makhni
Garlic Naan bread.
That's what we had to start......I would have been quite happy to run away and sit in a corner with the Dal Makhni and a plate of the Naan bread and snap and snarl at anyone who tried to come near me for a taste. Yes it brought out the animal in me
Butter Shrimp
Lamb Rogan Josh
Kashmiri Chicken
Aloo Chole (primarily potatoes with spices and tomato)
The spices were all just mouth wateringly exquisite and each dish was able to stand on its own and be declared just right. The lamb this time was tender and succulent.
Everything stood out in its own special way. The rice was cooked to perfection.
Service was excellent. We never lacked for anything. I just have nothing bad to say about this place.
The beer is still dirt cheap...$1.95 for domestic Bud, Bud Light and Miller. $12 for a carafe of house wine which yielded much more than a bottle of wine, though the bottles are dirt cheap too.
Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow (yay leftovers) :)
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10/25/2009
We had some bad news, shocking news this weekend and hubby and I need some comfort food. I'm in Sunrise on my way home and my hubbys calls and asks "can you get some Indian?" So I pull off 595 and find Griffin Road and go into Royal India and order our comfort staple...Chicken Tikka Masala (medium) and some Lamb Korma (Hot) with a double order of naan and a side of veggie samosa. I sat outside in the car because my baby was with me and he had fallen asleep. Man the number or people coming and going from this place at about 6:30 on a Sat night was impressive.
The food is still GREAT. The only thing was, the lamb wasn't lamb..to us it was mutton. But the Chicken was still great and the nan was awesome. The samosa we didn't see...our son spirited them away into his bedroom but he later proclaimed them to be GREAT.
For takeout this is a little expensive ($41 for two entrees, one app and two sides of Naan) but for the taste factor its priceless. We ate last night - I had lunch and now I'm after having dinner. Awesome because there is no way I can replicate the flavors at home.. -
8/28/2008
My new GO TO Indian Restaurant. I just KNOW I will be sitting at my computer for days to come staring into space and thinking of what to order next time.
I went here with a party of six - four adults and two children. First impression is that it was much cleaner than I expected. We sat and had our drinks order take. $1.95 for a bottle of Budweiser beer!!!! INSANE BEER PRICES for a restaurant!!!! First thing that struck me about the menu was that they had a kids meal!!! Nan, French Fries and some Tandoori Chicken or Chicken Tikka, a choice of soft drink and a dessert. All for $3.95. Nice if you have picky eaters.
Onto the main menu. I like that its simple and that the dishes are explained well. We ordered for the table to eat family style. Two orders of the special appetizer ($7.95) which included Veg. Samosa, Veg. Pakora (fritter), Onion Bhajia (fritter), chicken pakora and mixed kabab. There was more than enough in one serving for all four adults so we packed up the second to go home. For main dishes we ordered Chicken Tikka ($14.95); Chicken Curry ($13.95); Lamb Vindaloo ($15.95) and Butter Shrimp ($18.95) and of course some Nan bread ($1.95). Everything was great! The food was hot (temp.!) and the Vindaloo was just the way it should be, hot but flavorful. Yes! I have finally found the ohohoh curry that burns but you can't stop eating it because its soooooo tasty. I've eaten other hot currys that just plain burn, with this one from Royal India you can taste the flavors through the burn. SO DARNED GOOD. The Nan was a perfect balance of crispy and soft and buttery. There was an awful lot of food. We had to take about a third of it home with us. I'm going to be eating Indian for the rest of the week. I don't mind though....I had some lamb for breakfast, so awesome!
I met up with a couple of Yelpers and friends on a Friday night for dinner and catching up. The place was packed, and with a line out the door. That's saying something in these recession times.
The sushi is freshly made in front of you in the center of the refrigerated display counters. The turnover on Friday night was super fast so you know that what you were eating was really fresh. What I particularly liked was that they have plates and plates of just the raw fish slices so you could load up on that if you were watching your carb intake.
As I had pigged out on the unlimited Sushi and Edamame and probably at least one of everything else from the hot buffet I skipped the hibachi grill but my neighbor had what smelled just awesome, a concoction of her own making with shrimp, a ton of garlic and ginger and some veggies. Again as we had over done it on the real food front, we skipped the dessert table, but I did manage to squeeze in some fresh pineapple slices.
They have a beer and wine menu and the prices are reasonable $4.50 for a Kirin Ichiban beer.
The staff were super attentive and at the end of the night as we were one of the last tables to leave, they were doing a very thorough job of cleaning up.
Fat pants rule!
My voyage to the Peak started on Facebook a few years go with some connections with some old school friends, and it grew and took wind beneath its sails with time until WHAM...about 30 of us descended on the Peak on a Saturday night in early October 2011 for an awesome trip back in time with the Ard Lughaidh Class of '86 Reunion.
What a beautiful restaurant. Overlooking the Atlantic ocean crashing down below on the rocks. Was it a coincidence that this restaurant was built upon the foundations of the hotel where we all celebrated our Debs Ball in 1996 (I use the term "celebrated' loosely...I for one have no recollection of events after midnight). Its a beautiful setting, especially so now that I'm a grown up and can appreciate such things.
The restaurant itself is a very open plan design, with a main bar area when you walk in where you can congregate and wait for your party. With a dance floor and a baby grand piano, the star of this show is their full frontal of the Atlantic Ocean crashing in on the beach. Happy memories of that beach :)
The food was great given the fact that we were a huge group. I can't say that anything stood out in my mind as being exceptional but you have to realise that given the circumstances we spent so much time talking it was a non-point for me at that stage. We had a set menu and I had a shrimp starter and salmon entree and it was absolutely delicious. The service was stellar, I have to give them that much.
Thank you The Peak for such a fun night!!! See you for the 50th!!!
A couple of me auld familiar Yelpers ended up here after having a shitty experience at a fancy pants establishment next door. We were starved hungry and just looking for some "dry packing" for a nights drinking ahead at Temple Bar. Fair play, the bartender sent us upstairs where a somewhat dry humored but absolutely efficient waitress took care of us.
The Guinness was great as was the Beef in Guinness Pot Pie it washed down. Downstairs was definitely more happening than upstairs but when you have 6 in your party on a Friday night during happy hour, you take what you can get.
I loved this place. The highlight for me was the company of course, it's amazing to me that you can land in Dublin in the morning, have a little nap and then have dinner with some complete strangers who aren't really strangers at all. The Yelp family is so widespread and so welcoming. Thank you to Cristin L. for setting up an awesome dinner, and for choosing an exceptional wine to wash it down with. Did we really go for that third bottle of wine? Damn straight we did, we're Yelpers!
The Pigs Ear is one of those places that you would never visit if it were not for Yelp. Hidden away behind a nondescript storefront, it reminded me of the Relativity painting by M.C. Escher. Stairs and stairs and stairs. Definitely not a place for the wheelchair bound.
Terribly quaint in its drawbacks from our youth with such simple touches as a wee Suicre bag of sugar with a spoon put on the table with coffee, awesome Yellowjack (think Crunchie honeycomb, only MUCH MUCH better) with brown bread ice cream.
The key here was presentation. My pork & ham knuckle brawn appetizer was served in a teeny little potting jar on a bare wood board, with a schmear of carrot jam and pickles. It was both delicious and very quaint.
When I got my main course of smoked haddock on cauliflower champ, I thought to myself, I would never be full. But the portion sizes were just perfect and we all left there sufficiently satiated.
Thank you to Dublin Yelp for making Miami Yelp feel so welcome :) I hope someday I can return the favour!
NOTE: Real English was used in the creation of this review :P
Anyway, great place to go if you don't want to hear what anyone else has to say except for the person directly beside you.
OK for us. We just came to be together, take pictures, have drinks and be goofy fuckers. I love my Jennifer S.
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