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Mar. 29th, 2013 11:23 pm
The many sides to eating out
For a change, brunch with the boys became dinner. Scruffy, who's on spring break, invited me to lunch, but ended up double-booked and felt bad about it. And if we're meeting after work, why not see who else can come as well? In the end, it was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu and Mazeppa. Location was left up to me and I chose Polygon Café in Andersonville because (a) it's not that pricey and (b) we were curious about it anyway. Because even though it's stealth Thai, we've heard some good things.
They were mostly true. None of their dishes are going to change the world, but the ingredients were fresh and the presentation was solid. Their rolls were short on gimmicks and the flavours were good. I though they handled the tempura particularly well; I think the sweet potato roll was the best thing I put in my mouth. (Mazeppa had to order a second one.) The "Crunchy Pumpkin" was almost as good and their salmon skin had a good crunch as well.monshu liked his green curry, but the piece of ginger chicken I swiped from Scruffy was unremarkable.
Mazeppa and I were very much in synch, ordering almost all the same dishes. In fact, the waitress misunderstood and thought we were ordering one fried banana to share rather than two, but she was super nice about the mix-up and the second serving came out quickly. Which was just as well, as the Old Man was well faded by that point. The noise of the place (your typical all-hard-surfaces--how much longer until the next design trend?) wore him down, and what conversation he could hear was too much about tv shows and Facebook memes and other things which are as foreign to him as plainchant and bonnets.
Scruffy, a math teacher, objected to the fact that the name notwithstanding, polygons played a very minor role in the decor. I confronted the owner about this: "I just like the sound of the word." But she promised that on the next visit--and there will be one--she would replace the elabourate spirals of sauce on the desert plates with geometric figures.
monshu and Mazeppa. Location was left up to me and I chose Polygon Café in Andersonville because (a) it's not that pricey and (b) we were curious about it anyway. Because even though it's stealth Thai, we've heard some good things.They were mostly true. None of their dishes are going to change the world, but the ingredients were fresh and the presentation was solid. Their rolls were short on gimmicks and the flavours were good. I though they handled the tempura particularly well; I think the sweet potato roll was the best thing I put in my mouth. (Mazeppa had to order a second one.) The "Crunchy Pumpkin" was almost as good and their salmon skin had a good crunch as well.
monshu liked his green curry, but the piece of ginger chicken I swiped from Scruffy was unremarkable.Mazeppa and I were very much in synch, ordering almost all the same dishes. In fact, the waitress misunderstood and thought we were ordering one fried banana to share rather than two, but she was super nice about the mix-up and the second serving came out quickly. Which was just as well, as the Old Man was well faded by that point. The noise of the place (your typical all-hard-surfaces--how much longer until the next design trend?) wore him down, and what conversation he could hear was too much about tv shows and Facebook memes and other things which are as foreign to him as plainchant and bonnets.
Scruffy, a math teacher, objected to the fact that the name notwithstanding, polygons played a very minor role in the decor. I confronted the owner about this: "I just like the sound of the word." But she promised that on the next visit--and there will be one--she would replace the elabourate spirals of sauce on the desert plates with geometric figures.