Front Porch

Tuesday night Kathryne, Julie, Ryan and I all went to dinner at Front Porch (www.thefrontporch.com). It was excellent! I had the brown sugar and tamarind braised short ribs with sweet potato and cucumber salad. Ryan got the bucket of chicken and Julie had the fish cutter which was fried oyster. Kathryne had the vegan one pot stew which was really good as well. Another thing that won me over was their excellent mac and cheese. I am a sucker for mac and cheese and always interested in a new recipie and theirs was really good! They were paired with sweet potatoes and cucumber salad. We also tried the ceviche and arugala salad. Of course dessert is mandatory and they had excellent dessert options. I had the pumpkin pine nut cake with coconut ice cream drizzled with honey. Julie had the poached pear and Ryan tried the sorbet (meyer lemon, tamarind and one other flavor I can't remember). The prices were really reasonable and the food was really on par with way more expensive places. It was a really low key place. They played great music. It didn't get croweded until after about 8pm and it did start to get pretty noisy so if that is something you can't live with just go early and you will be fine. If you don't find a dessert you like there you always have Mitchells which is across the street (http://www.mitchellsicecream.com/)