Thursday, April 09, 2009

The Must a great place for Art Walk Night

Tonight is Art Walk.. and while I probably won't go there myself (it's so crowded!) one of the really good, but not so recession friendly options around town in the evening is The Must!

THE MUST!

The Must opened late last year as a wine and comfort food bar in the back of Weeneez at the corner of 5th & Spring. We ended up eating there several weeks back (Mar 10th) when we wanted to go for cheeseburgers at Weeneez and it was closed.. but the The Must was open. We were hungry so we attempted dinner here.

good crowd @ The Must

The total bill came to about $60 for 4 items, drinks and a dessert.. A lot more than we were planning to spend. The food was pretty good but in the end it's ideally a wine bar. A great place to come and have a drink and try one of the many small plates-- if you're meeting friends after work or you want to stop here during art walk or any number of events you'll be attending downtown.

Service the night we were there was spotty.. that night they could have used at least one extra server. We probably wouldn't have noticed so much if we were there to socialize rather than have a nice dinner. Dinner was indeed nice.. just not something I would do very often in this economy.. wine & snack? yes.

Rather than go into details here's some pix of the yummy dishes we tried:
Sauteed wild mushrooms
sauteed wild mushrooms ($6) and my least favorite.. tasty but not too exciting.

sweet potato tots w/ ranch dressing
Sweet Potato tots with Ranch Dressing ($6).. Very GOOD!! order 2 of these as you won't want to share.. seriously.

mini chicken sliders
Mini Chicken Sliders: Crispy fried chicken breast, smoked mozzarella, ranch dressing, and pickles on mini biscuits. $4 each or 3 for $10. These were excellent!

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Orange, Almond & Bacon Salad: Blood Oranges, smokehouse almonds, applewood bacon, butter lettuce & citrus honey vinaigrette. $7 Ehhhh.. was ok..

For dessert they had 3 options the bread pudding appealed to us but they were out. We ended up ordering the fluffernutter which I've never tried before ever..

fluffernutter
The Fluffernutter.. with chocolate dipping sauce. High on the naughty treat level but not exactly what I was really wanting.. (when you got a craving for bread pudding fluffernutter isn't a good substitute).

All in all it wasn't a horrible meal, and I would definitely recommend the place to anyone wanting to get a glass of wine and bite to eat. If you want Tapas, go to Warung. If you want a yummy cheeseburger and Weeneez is closed, go the extra block to the Nickel. It'll cost you a LOT less than The Must.

If you want a great glass of wine with a tasty treat such as the sweet potato tots and the chicken sliders.. go for it! We'll be back one of these days to try the bread pudding but it'll be a while. Our wallet is still a bit bruised.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Ha ha- yeah, The Must can "bruise your wallet"! I try to only go during happy hour when many items are half off (including the sweet potato tots- those are amazing). They have 3 kinds of Sangria, all of which I like, but at $7 a galls not worth it, but at $3.50 a good value. I have to find out if the fried chicken sliders are on happy hour menu as I could devour a few of those... IF I were not dieting :-(

MeekoRouse said...

hey did you make it to Art Walk last night?

Unknown said...

I missed Art Walk again :-( But mostly because I used to go and eat and drink- but diet kind of makes going to those kinds of places hard.

And I'm not in the market for art now- I haven't even put art up that I own as landlord has strict rules on size of holes in walls- oh well, someday...

SinoSoul said...

o yes!! the Fluffernutter! there's just NO way to take a good pix of that monster. @ $9, we stopped ordering it unless there are at least 3 of us present.

Their St. Bernardus 12 is also $1 more than Wurstkuche making it a not-so-great bargain. Must make it for HH one of these days...