My initial thought was “no, thank you, I don’t want this wine”. Shatter is a joint project of Dave Phinney, the winemaker at Orin Swift Cellars, and Joel Gott, the winemaker at the eponymous winery. I heard of Shatter before, I believe I read a rave review in one of the blogs (sorry, it’s been a while). One of those wines was called Shatter, a Grenache wine out of France. We started talking about wine, and Enzo mentioned that he has a number of wines that are not on the list, and which he will be glad to offer to us. Chef (and owner) Enzo is quite passionate about the wines, and he likes to please his guests. First of all, the wine list was well priced (there is enough selection of decent wines in the proximity of $30, which is not often in restaurants). The wines, luckily, represented a different story. All the food was perfectly cooked – but real seasoning, the “umph”, was missing, while it was greatly desired. We ordered a number of dishes (some pictures are below), and all of them shared the same trait – they were good but plain. Talking about food, nothing was really stunning or even simply standing out – with the exception of the white bean spread served with the bread, which was outstanding and gone in two seconds. The restaurant is also offering a “tasting menu” featuring seasonal ingredients. The restaurant defines its food as Modern Mediterranean – however, looking at the menu, I would simply classify it as Italian, considering the prevalence of the traditional Italian dishes. The restaurant I want to talk about today is called Madonia and it is located in Stamford, CT. But I will make an effort to write more posts about our restaurant experiences. My reviews will comprise of a bunch of pictures and a few words about food and wine. Well, let’s make it straight – I’m not going to convert into a restaurant critic. Taking this into account, you should expect to see more restaurant “reviews” in this blog. However, recently I discovered Urbanspoon – well, I knew about Urbanspoon for a while already, but I didn’t know that, unlike Yelp and TripAdvisor, Urbanspoon actually allows you to link your blog post to the particular restaurant’s page, which to me is somewhat of a game-changer. And for just plain restaurant reviews I typically use Yelp. In general, I do it only when I’m really wowed. I like to write about restaurant experiences.
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