I wrote about Market Cafe previously, however, I have to update the review because I found a dish that is SO good that it makes me need to bump up the Nom Nom points.
To start, however, I must mention that while they say they open at noon, we literally stood outside the empty restaurant staring at them until about 5 after when they finally seated us.
So onto the food… The Seared Sea Scallops are SO. DAMN. GOOD. that I could make a whole meal out of it. Unfortunately, I have now sung their praises so much when I’m there with others that I always wind up splitting it.
The scallops are cooked so well to begin with… but then they’re on a bed of potato puree with brown butter that is TO. DIE. FOR. Holy potatoes batman! I am salivating just looking at that picture. Just because it’s so good… here is another picture.
The rest of the items on the menu are just pretty much average. Good but not great.
On this adventure, Lori and I got both the pork loin sandwich. It comes with smoke mozzarella, arugula, and butter pickles on homemade bread. I couldn’t have the pickles due to my allergy, and Lori thought they were way too sweet (since I love sweet with pork… I probably would have liked it). I also noticed that Lori could not handle the fat on the meat, however, in my humble opinion, that’s the best part! To each their own.
We were there with my Aunt Linda and she got the omelet of the day.
It was something along the lines of swiss and mushrooms (I think) and she said she enjoyed it.
HOWEVER… there was a salad problem. The lettuce was VERY old, brown, wilted, and tasted funny. It should never have left the kitchen.
To be fare, the waiter was very apologetic about it and brought us french fries. Unfortunately, they didn’t make it to the table before I had to leave for a meeting. Though I remember them being tasty.
So while the 6.5 stands on most of the food… and the service was lacking… the scallops get a solid 8! I’m therefore changing my ranking…
Total Nom Points: 7 out of 10
