If you've ever tried to grab dinner before a concert at the Frank Erwin Center, or a UT game, or the IMAX (for AVATAR ha!), then you know how limited your dining options really are.
Serranos. Ewww, no thanks. Stubbs? Always packed and a suuuper heavy meal. Brick oven? Maybe, but only if you're in the mood for sucky pizza.
So, faced with the challenge of picking a restaurant near the IMAX I googled, and googled, and googled, and landed on SAGRA.
Everyone, I mean, everyone told me I would hate it, get sick from it, be annoyed by the loud waitstaff, everything short of dying from the experience.
But come on, like I'm going to take their word for it...
The place is cuuuute, simple, romantic, and quaint. The tables are really close together, to the point where by the end of our dinner I wondered if the lady at the table next to me ended up breaking up with her boyfriend or not...ha!
We started with the cheese plate, shared the prosciutto and arugula pizza, and the calamari.
The cheese plate was good with a kalamata olive mustard. The pizza was o.k.... a little on the salty side, but the crust was very good. As far as the calamari goes... gross. Super bland, greasy, cold, and the dipping sauce had the fresh-out-of-the-jar taste. Not good.
The service was o.k., aside from our super loud server, and it's moderately priced.
If you're in a crunch, or don't feel like eating at the other places around Frank Erwin/Bob Bullock, give it a whirl. I won't go back though... :(
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't say "give it a whirl", and I WOULD say you will HURL!!! This place was disgusting...as I tried to warn you soooo much!! The only reason I would go there would be for a couple of drinks prior to an event, but I would definitely bring earplugs with me to drown out the sound of the annoying waitress, that evidently everyone gets when they go there!!!!
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