Restaurant Review: Cafe Caprice
For my b-day, the girlie took me to Cafe Caprice. It was very tasty. It’s a sorta fusion style food. They grab from all over. Allow me to go into greater detail.
Appetizer
Shrimp and Grilled Corn Salad on crisp tostones, with garlic, lime crema, mizuna salad
While it was a table appeteizer, well, the girlie doesn’t eat seafood, so it was just for me. I gotta say, though it was lacking in portion size, these things were simply outstanding. Just an awesome flavor. Honestly, they were my fav thing of the meal, and that’s saying a lot, cause I really enjoyed the meal.
Salad
House Salad mixed field green salad
She got it, I really have no idea. She kept going on about how good the dressing was. She didn’t share, so I guess it was good.
Romaine Heart Salad with garlic croutons, shaved red onion, Asiago cheese, traditional Caesar dressing
Ok, we have both been sick, and my body needed salad. It told me to order salad. This is not normally what I go with. I hate stalky lettuce, and I don’t care much for the flavor, so I want lots of strong flavors to override the lettuce. I tell you this so you understand that when I say I really enjoyed this salad, it gives it some gravity.
Entree
Cornbread and Chorizo stuffed Chicken Breast with ancho apple butter sauce
She got it, and I tried it. She really liked it. She let me try a bite, and honestly, I thought it was a bit dry (the chicken, I expected the stuffing to be a bit dry). She said the sauce it was served with compensated for that. She didn’t share that either, so I will have to take her word on it. However, since I felt it was a bit dry and this is my review, not our review (though that did just spawn a great idea of doing a he said/she said restaurant review blog) this is the only place I will knock off from a perfect score.
Pumpkin Seed-Crusted Pork Schnitzel with tri-colored spaetzle
There were several entrees I was trying to decide between. She told me she read the menu ahead of time and was expecting me to get the lamb. Honestly, I seriously considered it, but my love for spaetzle won out. Let me tell you, this was an extraordinary item. Very, very tasty and the glaze on it was just… undescribable. Turns out, you get common sides with the entrees that weren’t listed. I don’t know if they are seasonal or what. It included steamed bock choy, some sort of fusion between broccoli and cauliflower, steamed and lastly beets. Now I know why I don’t eat beets. However, it was the “brocco-flower” that intriqued me. She hates cauliflower, I’m not crazy about broccoli. However, this item we both enjoyed.
Dessert
Well, the desserts aren’t on their site and well… I remember I had the special which was a type of bread pudding. She had some sort of pie. They were both very good (though I will say I thought the bread pudding was better).
Service
Service was great. We had several people taking care of us: one main waiter and several others that made sure our consumables were taken care of.
Ambience
It was actually very quaint. A small house (what used to be Basil’s) turned into a more-or-less reservation only restaurant. Very intimate.
Bread
They had bread with the meal, and it was good, but what stood out was the cinnamon butter. That stuff was great.
Rating
I hestitate to do a “scoring” here, because, let’s be honest, a lot of this stuff is subjective. However, if anyone actually cares about this review and is using it to help guide their eating decisions, I feel I should give a metric.
5 - Perfect
4 - Damned Good
3 - Pretty Tasty
2 - O.K.
1 - Not eating there again
I have to give this place a 4.5 only taking off for the dryness of the girlie’s entree. Short of that, a perfect meal.