Fancy Restaurant

Nick took me out on a date this Friday to the fanciest restaurant Pullman has to offer. For those of you who know Pullman you might be thinking it's McDonalds', Pizza Hut, or even Denny's. But it's not!!! Pullman is pretty small and has little to offer by way of eat-in restaurants however there's this place in "downtown" Pullman called The Old Post Office, which, I believe, is actually the old post office. I don't think this place has an official name because couldn't find one. I'd never even heard of it.

We had to wait about 30 minutes for a table to open up even with reservations because it was Dad's Weekend for WSU. When we finally got in I thought "Hmmm, yeah, it's pretty cozy..." It's Located in a Winery so there was wine tasting going on in several rooms not connected to the actual restaurant but the setting was the classiest thing I'd ever seen: A few leather couches, big open area, dimly lit, warm, a fireplace, different shaped tables and sizes to suit different size parties, and a well dressed staff.

When we were seated and given the menu I had to laugh. The menu was one stiff piece of paper with all things offered on the front and back (well spaced!). Next to this paper menu was another menu, or rather, catalog. Of wine. It weighed a ton! There had to be at least 50 pages in it! We sent those back with the waitress after she gave us our water.

We decided to get an appetizer because they were not what we usually find being offered. We asked the waitress what she thought was the best and got that one. When she first brought it out it looked like cheese cake with pureed strawberries around it. Turns out it was a slice of melted brie with pureed rhubarb around it and a basket of some soft bread to eat it on. The first question I asked was "How in the world did someone decide it might be good to try rhubarb on cheese on bread?" Regardless of my confusion I tried it and to my surprise it was actually really good! It added a nice kick to the cheese! It took Nick a couple of minutes to decide to try it but it won him over as well.

Ordering the Entree was the funny part though...and kind of scary. After the description of the one I wanted to order it said: 26 (in bold). Yep, you guessed it. $26. Woah Nelly! Nick was going all out! The meat I was ordering was also organic. Now, I can't say it was worth $26, but I can say it was probably worth about $18-$20 because of how much better it was than anything at a middle-class range. The potatoes were loaded and absolutely worth it! We also got green beans smothered in garlic, although we didn't get as much of the veggies as we would have liked...Though, in the end, all the entrees were around that same price with only a one or two dollar difference.

We decided that since we probably weren't going to be coming back to this place anytime soon that we might as well make it worth it and order desert. My problem was that they didn't have anything left of what I wanted (strawberry swirl cheesecake...*sniff*). I ended up ordering something called chocolate decadence. It was....hard to describe...hard cakish chocolate on the bottom...chocolate...some cherries(ewww!)...thin pudding syrupy chocolate...ICK! I won't be eating anything that sounds close to a description of that ever again!!! I ended up eating only half of what was already a small portion and Nick gladly finished it.

So, that was our date at a "fancy restaurant" in Pullman. The food (for the most part) was fabulous and definitely several notches above Applebee's. However, my first love is still the White House in Post Falls, ID because it's far cheaper, much garlic..ier..., and has my favorite dish ever!