It sounds forking weird but you can go out to dinner and have this really forking great meal so good that you also actually look forward to having dessert too and you just kind of forking assume that dessert will be great if everything else is great. All the appetizers and dinners we had at this place were forking appetizing and delicious. It was restaurant week and we were getting appetizers, dinners and forking dessert too!

Gazpacho from Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

Bruschetta from Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

Pulled Pork under Bacon Wrapped Meatloaf from Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

Basil Salmon from Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

The dinners were also forking amazing. Cooked to perfection and seasoned just so.

Next desserts arrive and it seemed as if somebody other than a pastry chef prepared them. The desserts do taste home made but not so good to me. (your opinion may forking differ) I didn’t think it was possible that the amazing perfectly prepared dinner I had could have made the same chef that made the desserts I tried from this restaurant.

Most chefs do work very hard and are always working. Many chefs also work very long hours because so much work goes into preparing all the foods they prepare. Sometimes they do have someone else make the desserts for them like a pastry chef or another cook in the kitchen sometimes makes the desserts.

I tried the Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme. I had many pots de creme before and I also prepare them myself once or twice a year. They are a very sophisticated kind of pudding but are made with higher quality ingredients than pudding.  Instead of using  starchy  thickeners like the way you make pudding  the Pots de Creme are thickened with egg yolks that you carefully cook in milk and cream. Pots de Creme should be dense and rich with a smooth velvety mouth feel. They are usually topped with whipped cream and are normally served in a mug.

The Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme I tried from the restaurant had fresh mint wrapped strawberries that tasted good and sat on top of a tart cream. However the Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme tasted like lemon curd that went kind of  wrong. It was thick, lumpy, maybe pasty, and lacked lemon flavor to me. It was also somewhat eggy tasting and tasted more eggy than lemony.

Meyer Lemon Pots de Creme from Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

So then I tried the Nutella Tart.

Nutella Tart Urban Vine Phoenix AZ

The filling would have been GOOD if it wasn’t so forking sweet. The thick crust was tough and also was sweet.  A buttery salted delicate crust would taste better to me.  The banana however was delicious and I liked the crunchy caramelized sugar on it.

I note that was just my forking opinion and your forking opinion may differ and it’s possible that  I tried the “practice batch.”

You can get a really great dinner out but that doesn’t mean the dessert will be great to you too.

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Sabortooth Grill San Diego Zoo

I didn’t plan my day well and was on this end of the zoo at lunch time. We waited in the forking long line for quite a while for sandwiches that forking took me back to the days of disco, polyester and days of eating processed food. Yum yum what to get? Do I want leftover fried, now cold, chicken in a big wrap with forking mystery sauce or a boxed very uninteresting salad. For some odd reason the grilled chicken sandwich with some guacamole sounded good to me so that’s what I ordered. Sadly the chicken sandwich didn’t live up to my only average dreams. This chicken sandwich tasted like an On Cor frozen processed chicken patty but worst. It  seemed like a large dump truck forking unloaded a pile of salt on it. I thought I was forking going to get sick. The onion rings were very crispy and reminded me of Burger King. The slime like guacamole reminded me of pond scum and actually might have been forking pond scum. I thought the house made pear ketchup sounded good but sadly it just tasted like watered down generic ketchup. Nothing on my plate was worth a fork.

My husband just had a mediocre cheese burger. He said it was cheap cheese on dry chewy burgers but it was what he expected.

Not Worth a Fork

In Old Town San Diego were all the tourist shops are many mostly Mexican Restaurants.

Grilled Salmon Tacos from Barra Barra Saloon San Diego

This one restaurant had a nicer menu than most of the others and looked more inviting so we stopped there. I read that they forking make all their own tortillas. That sounds good right! We had some service issues here and would up waiting for our order for an hour at lunch time making us feel like prisoners in jail. We recieved several forking apologies from our waiter. My tacos really weren’t forking terrible, they really were just ok. The waiter told me they usually use forking pre-cooked salmon and ran out and had to cook some for me so the tacos were ok.  However  the corn salad and beans were forking gross. The corn in my corn salad were soggy with the forking centers of the corn missing. I don’t know if that is from being overcooked or old? All I know is that they were forking not fit for prisoners. I don’t know how they flavored the vegetarian beans but they tasted like dirt maybe it was forking dirt?

My husband thought his plate of food wasn’t worth a fork either. He had some sort of combo plate. He said, the sausage was burnt, the chicken was dry and the pork was flavorless. He did say the beef was good. Well at least something was good.

Not Worth a Fork

I heard about the most anticipated new restaurant opening and it was a Seafood House so we forking went there. It was a beautiful restaurant that was new but looked very old fashioned. The help seemed very polished. We decided to share an appetizer of butternut squash tortellini.

Butternut Squash Tortellini Water Grill San Diego California

The waiter warns us about the forking hot plate. We each take a tortellini. We bite into them and we forking look at each other for a moment. We both have forking ice cold, I mean really cold tortellini in our mouths. WTFork! Did the cook just pull out cold tortellini from the refrigerator? Who the fork does that?

This is Forked Up!

Our dinner had some issues and I wanted to forget about this dinner that should have been our best in San Diego so we forking ordered dessert.

Water Grill San Diego CA

I didn’t think the dessert looked bad but it forking tasted burnt!

BURNT!

BURNT!

FORKING BURNT!

We only tasted BURNT!

Not Worth a Fork

These were the plates that weren’t worth a FORK in San Diego.

Forking Truth

These Tortellini look pretty nice! Don’t They?

But it seemed like someone just pulled them out of the forking refrigerator, dressed them up a little and threw them on a heated plate hoping we’d just forking eat them that way.

This is Forked Up!

It’s really very odd that someone did this…

We said something to our waiter and before we knew it the manager was over and apologized profusely. The manager took the tortellini off our check and asked us if we’d take a properly made plate of butternut squash tortellini.

A long time passes by and we are wondering what was happening. Eventually a plate of hot butternut squash tortellini’s have arrived. They are delicious but slightly spicy. They have a creamy butternut sauce that is cut with fresh crisp apples and some fried sage.

Soon our pink sea bream arrives.

Water Grill San Diego CA

The fish looks sort of nice with fresh herbs and a cooked lemon.

But it’s slightly overcooked and slightly dried out like it’s been sitting awhile. It’s sort of like fish off a buffet and not that moist perfect fish your hoping for from a fish house.

I said it was forking ok to the waiter because it was ok just not great.

OK so I was expecting an excellent fish dish since this is a fish place and was sort of disappointed and thought I needed dessert to cheer me up and forget about the disappointment.

We decided to share a Pear Tart Tatin.

Water Grill San Diego CA

The ice-cream was suppose to be caraway flavored but neither of us could taste caraway. Everything under the ice-cream just tasted burnt. I don’t really know if it was just a burnt sauce or a burnt cake and sauce. Neither of us could saw threw the cake with our forks because the tart tatin was hard like a rock. This dessert was awful and I told the waiter that it was hard to eat. He said well you can order something else next time.

I don’t know who they have working there in the kitchen? Was it these guys?

Or it was these guys?

Not Worth a Fork

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I note this may not be typical of this restaurant but if you happen to give them a try I’d recommend the raw shellfish.