There’s nothing quite like the debut of a new seasonal menu to get your tastebuds excited at the prospect of a new adventure. With that in mind, Snackbar has just released its summer menu.
View all of the new menu items at the link below, which includes a shrimp roll, a burger, lamb ribs, pork terrine, and an entirely new lineup of desserts.
I have eaten at SB several dozen times, but I confess, their menu is getting a bit too esoteric for me.
“Fricassee” and “Terrine” are fancy menu euphemisms for “Pot O’ Glop”, if celery is on the menu, and it ain’t in a Bloody Mary, then you can be sure it’s in a stew. Notice that the main ingredient in the “Terrine” entree is the same as a Side dish, I would tell ‘em you’re taking home their Terrine to get some value out of your $22.
The “Shrimp Roll” is a Shrimp Slider (1) for $12, and they can keep their Raw Bar, their delicatessen meats, their Moules, and even their Cioppino as far as this Bistro barfly is concerned.
Still, upon reflection, their Salads are good, although too small to be an Entree, and the Croque and Burgers are good sandwiches (how did a menu term as pedestrian as “sandwich” find it’s way onto that menu??).
And you can’t go wrong with the Mac & Cheese, if you order the $18 version, have them serve it to you in a Terrine
I made a mistake in my above post, and I apologize for any misunderstanding it may have caused.
Strike everything I said about “Terrine” – - My mistake was that I mixed-up the words “Terrine” and “Tureen”. Even though Webster’s uses the two words interchangeably, “Terrine” has a very specific meaning when used to describe a foodstuff.
In the context of how SnackBar is using it, it means:
“A Terrine is a French forcemeat loaf that is served at room temperature. Similar to a pate, a Terrine uses more coarsely chopped ingredients.”
If you want to see what a “Terrine” looks like, copy & paste this link into your browser:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrine_(food)
So, forget everything I said in the above post regarding “Terrine”, and go over to SnackBar and have yourself a delicious hunk of forcemeat loaf.
Sorry about the mistake.