West Coast Tavern
West Coast Tavern is located in the lobby of The Birch North Park Theatre. The theatre, originally built as The North Park Theatre in 1928, has been a movie house, vaudeville venue, and church. In 2004 it was renovated and is once again a movie theatre as well as opera house
The Tavern offers a fabulous section of small plates. Alex and I arrived early as usual and pretty much had the place to ourselves. We started out with west coast fries, and the bacon, blue cheese flatbread with arugula and carmelized onions - a great combination of toppings. A Cupcake Sauvignon Blanc (me) and a Guinness (Alex) rounded out the first course nicely. Up until this night I had always favored the fries at The Prado, but I thought the west cost fries were much better - thin, crispy, with just the right amount of salt and herbs.
We continued with ground lamb sliders and charred green beans. The sliders had a topping of feta cheese, rosemary aioli, and caramelized onions, while the green beans had a sprinkling of chopped wild mushrooms and a roasted garlic vinaigrette. All of it was mouth-watering good.
By this time others had started trickling in and we were definitely beginning to get the "Hey, it's Friday" feeling - don't you just love that?
The Tavern offers a fabulous section of small plates. Alex and I arrived early as usual and pretty much had the place to ourselves. We started out with west coast fries, and the bacon, blue cheese flatbread with arugula and carmelized onions - a great combination of toppings. A Cupcake Sauvignon Blanc (me) and a Guinness (Alex) rounded out the first course nicely. Up until this night I had always favored the fries at The Prado, but I thought the west cost fries were much better - thin, crispy, with just the right amount of salt and herbs.
We continued with ground lamb sliders and charred green beans. The sliders had a topping of feta cheese, rosemary aioli, and caramelized onions, while the green beans had a sprinkling of chopped wild mushrooms and a roasted garlic vinaigrette. All of it was mouth-watering good.
By this time others had started trickling in and we were definitely beginning to get the "Hey, it's Friday" feeling - don't you just love that?