Saturday, March 3, 2012

It makes me "Blue" to write this

I remorsefully have to give an update on one of my favorite restaurants and their bar specials - Blue.


We went there a couple weeks ago and much to my dismay they only offer 4 food selections now and 2 of them are basically pizza. If you read my first blog on this (see older posts) three of the four selections we tried are no longer available on their bar menu including my favorite Flavors of the Mediterranean - Tapenade, Baba Ghanoush, white bean and Parmigiano-Reggiano salad and traditional hummus served with a warm pita, Greek olives, roasted peppers and olive oil. And Jero's favorite Crisp Arrancini - Risotto balls stuffed with pancetta, sweet onions and mozzarella fried crispy and topped with a tomato sauce. We were very disappointed. We ended up getting 2 orders of calamari & 1 order of hummus. Just plain hummus which I really didn't even want to order because, well, it just sounded . . plain boring. But I was hungry & one app wasn't going to do it and I like variety. They did serve a couple of black olives with it that livened it up a bit but not enough. I took some of the fried green olives that came with the calamari and livened it up with that. Then Jero was still hungry and went and ordered the scallop appetizer for $12. It came with 2, yes 2, scallops. They were big scallops but not $12 worth or $6 each. Crazy. Did I mention we were disappointed. They still have their nightly drink specials - $6 martinis & $4 beers which is a good deal. So if you like pizza, calamari and plain hummus you are good to go. As for us, we will be going elsewhere if we want more than pizza :(