If experience counts for anything, The White Dog, a newcomer to the Main Street pack, should have a good chance for a long walk.
The menu is brief but varied. Spring rolls with apricot chutney ($6), described on the menu as crispy fried, fell short of that, but the zesty chutney saved them. A pastry turnover ($6), filled with portobello mushrooms, roasted red peppers and Parmesan, and decorated with squiggles of a balsamic reduction is a pleasant little variation of some classic and trendy flavors.
The main courses number only a dozen but they cover a lot of territory for a variety of appetites. There's a "Big Salad with everything that matters including cheese" ($7), and you can cry fowl (grilled chicken) for $2 or add grilled shrimp for $3.50. A mix of vegetables over linguine ($9.50) can be augmented by chicken ($12) or shrimp ($15.50). There's more than an Asian flair in stir-fried shrimp and vegetables over cellophane noodles in a hoisin sauce ($14). It's a colorful, flavorful bowl with good contrast of texture, particularly with a garnish of crisp-fried noodles on top. Ancho-roasted chicken ($10) is ordinary, either kept warm too long or warmed over, but I liked the macaroni and cheese underneath and the crisp, garlicky snow peas on the side.
We finished with an intense fruit sorbet, frozen in the shell of the fruit tangerine, in this case. It's good.
Davis Morton
The menu is brief but varied. Spring rolls with apricot chutney ($6), described on the menu as crispy fried, fell short of that, but the zesty chutney saved them. A pastry turnover ($6), filled with portobello mushrooms, roasted red peppers and Parmesan, and decorated with squiggles of a balsamic reduction is a pleasant little variation of some classic and trendy flavors.
The main courses number only a dozen but they cover a lot of territory for a variety of appetites. There's a "Big Salad with everything that matters including cheese" ($7), and you can cry fowl (grilled chicken) for $2 or add grilled shrimp for $3.50. A mix of vegetables over linguine ($9.50) can be augmented by chicken ($12) or shrimp ($15.50). There's more than an Asian flair in stir-fried shrimp and vegetables over cellophane noodles in a hoisin sauce ($14). It's a colorful, flavorful bowl with good contrast of texture, particularly with a garnish of crisp-fried noodles on top. Ancho-roasted chicken ($10) is ordinary, either kept warm too long or warmed over, but I liked the macaroni and cheese underneath and the crisp, garlicky snow peas on the side.
We finished with an intense fruit sorbet, frozen in the shell of the fruit tangerine, in this case. It's good.
Davis Morton
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