Sunday, Italianini and I drove out of our comfy downtown bubble and went to North at the Domain for a long overdue date.
The place is contemporary, very nice, and has a great patio...although it's smaller than the others scattered across the U.S., it certainly lives up to the Fox Restaurant Concept's reputation.
I had only been there for lunch and I typically get the goat cheese, fig, and prosciutto pizza, but it was nowhere to be found on the dinner menu. Bummer. Meh, I'll try something new.
We started with a small salad called 'Tutta la Casa' --- pretty much they take whatever they can get their hands on and throw it into a bowl. Greens, prosciutto, cheeses, pine nuts, olives, etc etc... We also had the calamari which is served on a bed of spinach and some lemon wedges. It's so good, you don't need any kind of sauce.
Italianini ordered the tuna. It was a little disappointing. Very bland and the sauce on it didn't help much. Really, even the description on the menu is boring...Grilled Ahi Tuna with "Whatever Vegetable We Have".
Blaaaaah!
I had the Apple Cider Pork Tenderloin with olive oil mashed potatoes. YUMMY. It was perfect. It had a little bit of sweet, with the cider, and a little bit of sour, with some sort of tangy soy sauce concauction. Delish. We finished the evening with a little Tiramisu. It was mediocre. Could have saved myself some calories.
It's always tricky to take an Italian to an 'Italian' place. I guess if he agrees with my theory of NOT calling Tex-Mex Mexican food, then he probably enjoys the Americanized Italian food, right?
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