How are the desserts? Joe H. wrote: > > Summary: Inventive food, cramped seating, moderate-high pricing. > > Courtesy of my parents, my wife and I dined at Addis this weekend. The > restaurant is located across Rockville Pike from White Flint. It's in a small > converted house that looks like it was built around the same time as Rockville > Pike. This has the potential to be a quaint setting for a small boutique > restaurant, that serves expensive, yet excellent food. It would serve maybe > 26 people at a sitting. Unfortunately Addis seats 50 which means that you're > seated elbow to elbow with everyone else. Low atmosphere points. > > The service was quite attentive at the start, but as the restaurant started to > get more crowded it became harder to get their attention. > > The food, with the exception of the vegetable side dishes, was very good and > unique. I started with a cup of lentil soup with duck sausage (the soups > change daily) which was very good. The sausage really sparked the lentils > up. I wish I'd had a bowl of the soup instead of a cup. I had the rockfish > special. It was fixed with a lemon-thyme sauce on top of creamy polenta > surrounded by an artichoke heart-olive-onion? sauce. The rockfish was tender > and the seasoning on the rockfish was very good. The polenta tasted like the > cheese grits my mother in-law makes, but it worked really well with the > rockfish. There was something in the artichoke sauce (maybe the olives?) that > when taken all together completely overpowered the fish. It was a good sauce > on its own, so I treated it as sort of a loose side dish and that worked > well. On the whole, I like the dish. > > My wife had the bison steak which was very nicely marinated in a strong wine > sauce that really went well with buffalo (er...bison). The mashed potatoes > were perfect. > > My side vegetable was mustard greens and my wife's was spinich. Both of them > were cooked in the same sauce, which tasted as if they'd been par boiled in > movie popcorn butter and then salted. I didn't even want a second taste of my > wife's spinich, and I like spinich. > > Entrees run between $12 and $20, appetizers betwee $5 and $8 (possibly more > for the specials). No reservations on Friday or Saturday nights for parties > under 6. We went at 6:00 on Saturday and got in with no problem, but by the > time we left around 7 there was a line out the door. > > I may have had an off night because my parents really like Addis (especially > the fish tacos when they have them) and the line out the door suggests that > other people do also. The restaurant isn't bad, I just think it's over priced > for the atmosphere it presents. Maybe I'm just not used to Rockville prices. > > Joe H. > -- > Joe Herman > The Apex Group (410) 312-2651 > [email removed] > -- > Everything is wonderful until you know something about it.
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