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Overall Ratings:
***
Overall Review: The winner for the evening was the
Steamed Salmon. It was cooked perfectly with a wonderful
delicate mushroom cream sauce. If I could have rated the
restaurant on just this dish, they would have received four
stars. But since ratings are awarded on the whole dining
experience, this wasn't possible.
Review Date: June
27, 2007
Cuisine: Northwest
Regional Cuisine
Alcohol: Full service bar; beer & wine.
Large Washington state wine selection.
Attire: Casual to dressy casual
Location: Located in
the downtown area of Walla Walla, WA.
Open Hours:
Wednesday-Sunday: 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Wheelchair Accessible:
Yes
Parking: Parking
on the street
Price Range:
Starters: $10.00 to $12.00
Salads: $7.00 to $10.00
Entrees: $15.00 to $37.00
Reservations:
Reservations suggested
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Rating Key
Explanations:
* Bad
(will never go back)
** Fair (below average - will not go back)
*** Good (would consider dining there again)
**** Very Good (will definitely go back)
***** Extraordinary (will be back as soon as
possible)
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Whitehouse-Crawford
They
also have a Three-course prix fixe menu for each evening. You can
also choose from the menu of the evening, and also the bar menu for
lighter fare.
Dishes
we ordered with diner's comments:
Starters:
Country
style pate with house made mustard and pickled cherries. $10.00
This
pate was very good. The pate was very unusual with pistachio nuts in
it. The pickled cherries, mustard, and the pickles were all too sour
for the palate.
Grilled
quail with a smoky peanut mole sauce and pickled Walla Walla sweets.
$12.00
Quail
was good, but the mole was to spicy hot!
Salad:
Melted Quillisascut goat cheese with
bitter greens, plums, cherries, and verjus dressing. $9.00
Again
the dressing was too sour! Verjus is like using lemon juice,
and you have to be careful with the oil to juice ratio.
Entrees:
Grilled
Sunleaf Farm squab with roasted cherries, gaufrette potatoes, garden
lettuces, and squab-thyme jus. $28.00
The
diner's comment was, "Not bad, but not great!" The gaufrette
potatoes were just potato chips.
Alaskan
halibut with sesame-cilantro pesto and oven roasted vegetables.
$27.00
My
husband did not like this halibut at all! It had a hard crust
on the top and was overcooked and dried out. He didn't even finish
the dish.
Steamed
Copper River salmon with morel mushrooms, spring vegetables, and
mushroom cream. $32.00
The
winner for the evening was the Steamed Salmon. It was cooked
perfectly with a wonderful delicate mushroom cream sauce. Everyone
in our group had to taste this dish. If I
could have rated the restaurant on just this dish, they would have
received four stars. But since ratings are awarded on the whole
dining experience, this wasn't possible.
Stew of
locally raised grass-fed beef with red wine, bacon, mushrooms, and
Walla Walla sweet onions. $24.00
This
should have been an outstanding stew with the grass-fed beef, wine
and vegetables. Well it wasn't! It was too salty! The
salt overpowered the dish and ruined it. What a
disappointment! |
Housed
in what was once a woodworking mill. It
is a loft=style building that is shared
with Seven Hills winery. Very open
restaurant with views of both the bar
and the kitchen. Even with the expansive
area, it still achieves a cozy
atmosphere.