Mears Park: An Eating Tour

We tried Faces Mears Park with Loftdottir this week-mainly because it was too cold and rainy to enjoy the pop-up sidewalk cafe at the Wine Bin.

Bottom line- will go again.
Overall- better than ok, but not a home run
Service-not the notoriously slow service of LoTo (same owner, same space)
Dining Room/View- comfortable, great windows on Mears Park. Nice to be up high enough to look over the street parking.

To start-olive sampler $4 at happy hour price, regularly $6
More olives than 2 people can eat for an appetizer. Took the rest home to eat with cream cheese on a bagel. Rating-Love.

Loftdottir-had the Chicken Monte Cristo $7.50 with mixed salad greens. Rating- Infatuation. (We'll see if she still loves it after reheating the half she couldn't eat. That thing is huge.)

Lofty-lobster mac and cheese. "Appetizer" size. $14.00 (entree $26) Server described size quite accurately. The whole wheat macaroni had just the right tooth, the lobster was done just right. However, the overall finish of the dish was just too salty. Added salt or from the cheese? Can't tell. Would have liked the molten cheese sauce to have reflected some of the lobster sweetness. Rating-just friends, but would try it again.

Dessert-after generous dinner portions (even the smaller mac and cheese) we opted for a single truffle each $1.95. These are dense, not too sweet, chocolate treats. Great with the brewed coffee which was a bit slow in finding its way to our table. Rating-love, but not to everyone's taste if you're used to the higher fat texture and sweeter taste of Godiva.