In the past week, I went to two relatively new restaurants. On this past Thursday, Shannon and I went to Zingaro. I kept a smile on my face from the beginning to the end of this trip. Everything was playful and it just made very well. I really enjoyed it. The Chef, Hal Jasa, I ran into on a fairly regular basis between the Des Moines Farmers Market and Mars Cafe (he remade their menu and had a Farmer's Market Salad). I watched him do amazing things when 1/3rd of his cooking tools broke one morning, and I watched him riff to figure out how to deliver the items ordered with the reduced tools. It was quite impressive. I hope it turns out well for him.
I went down to Flour Pizza with a couple of co-workers. Shannon and I tried to go a bit before but, well, I didn't realize they weren't open in the evening. It was quite good. I had some Azucar and it was quite good, along with their pizza as well. Shannon and I will go down there again sometime during this next week.
Over the next week I suspect I'm going to be working pretty late (yay) so because of that the meal are going to be very simple.
- Fennel and Potato Hash with and egg or two
- Lamb Burgers
- Sloppy Sammys
- Pancakes