Tonight for dinner I went to York Street Cafe. I am interning for CityBeat and they just rolled out the Best of Cincinnati card and York Street Cafe is one of the participating restaurants. We were so lucky. As it turns out that on Wednesday & Sunday if you buy two entrees you get a bottle of wine for $1. Yes. ONE DOLLAR. How awesome is that?
So we started with a bottle of Riesling and our appetizer (I forget the name and for some reason it’s not on the online menu) was a bread topped with pesto, goat cheese, tomato, provolone cheese, and a berry vinaigrette. Absolutely phenomenal. Goat cheese has such a distinctive taste and the vinaigrette was quite an opposite flavor so it all just exploded deliciousness from all sides in your mouth.
For our main course I ordered the shrimp penne paste and my friend ordered the ribs. The shrimp penne pasta included corn, tomatoes, and scallions along with the shrimp and the sauce was absolutely perfect. Of course we shared bites and the ribs were a bit too spicy for my taste. My friend loved them though and they were accompanied by mashed potatoes and broccoli.
The meal was winding down and the server asked if we wanted dessert. Well everything else had been great so we really couldn’t turn it down. I had the peanut butter pie and he had a milk chocolate cake with chocolate icing. My peanut butter pie was so thick and creamy that I really didn’t want to share, but the cake looked almost as good. It was almost as good, but on a scale of 1-10 my peanut butter pie was at least a 15.
All-in-all a great experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the atmosphere (very cute- I could totally understand why this was voted best place for a first date.) It had a certain comfort to it; like you were visiting back home. The service was also great. The room we were seated in ended up having a birthday party that was bigger than they had anticipated so they asked us if we would like to move to the back before we got our entrees. Everyone was very personable and helpful. For a three course meal for two with wine on a Wednesday our total was $66.61 before tip. Highly recommended and worth it.