Honestly, after a long, grueling, stressful summer, I needed something to celebrate surviving the…read morelast few months of 2026 and something to usher in new hope for the months ahead. As I was looking for places to go, I had come across this place, a beer bar that has been reviewed by a few of my fellow Yelpers in the past. You can get in from the Ironworks plaza of SoNo where you have places like The Spread, and it's located next door to Washington Prime.
I sat myself at the bar and was greeted and handed a menu before I had even finished sitting down. Like another person who reviewed this recently pointed out, the menu is made up of global street food. You have some American choices to be sure, but you also get options from South Korea, Peru, Italy, Denmark, Japan, and even Vietnam. There's a very hip ambiance within that brings this place to life. It seems like the theme they were going for here was travel. On one of the wall paintings, you can see a train, much like the ones I'm on almost every single day. You got road crossings, speed limit signs. It's kind of like taking a road trip without leaving the comfort of your own area. If, of course, that road trip includes taking a bridge across the vast Pacific Ocean or the much closer Atlantic Ocean. And if such a road trip kept high energy throughout. The people working here are attentive and efficient.
For my order, I nabbed 3 Amelia's to drink, Chinese Pork Ribs for the appetizer, and the Churrasco from Argentina for the entree. The Amelia is a Ketel One base with blackberry, elderflower, lemon, and mint. It tasted every bit as purple as it looked, and Ketel One vodka is always a staple when it comes to vodka's. It was also a very strong drink. Maybe I'm more of a lightweight than I'd previously thought, but I was definitely getting tipsy before I had even gotten my third drink, hence why I reviewed this today and not last night. I will say that I was tempted to do sake again before I went with Amelia, but I didn't really want to just do sakes on my outings. As for the food, it was delicious, but I did have some notes worth sharing.
Starting with the Chinese ribs, they're cut up into small bite-sized pieces. Of course, they're also bone-in ribs, so only a bit over half of each piece was actual meat. This made me wonder what process this went through before serving to be able to pull off such a clever presentation. The sauce and meat were at least good, and the sesame seeds were a nice garnish to the dish, as well as the onions.
Moving on to the Churassco, this was, in the words of the menu a "seared steak skewer with chimichurri sauce, served with French fries". For the record, I requested medium-well. If that makes me a monster, then so be it. Guess I'm a monster for not wanting raw steak. It was also the most expensive entree on the menu, clocking in at $23. What the menu does not mention is that there is also a dipping sauce that comes with the dish, and honestly, they should have included that in the description when printing out the menu because it was goddamn delicious and so much fun to dip my fries in! And while we're on the topic of the fries, they were piping out and genuinely really good. They knew how to season these and serve these fresh. As for the steak, it was still very tender and juicy, and the chimichurri sauce added another depth of flavor to this steak. Honestly, if not for the chimichurri, I might have mistook this for a French dish. I will say that French fries don't go together as well with chimichurri as they do with whatever the dipping sauce was. Maybe it was a Big Mac sauce, or maybe it was something a little cheesier than that? Whatever it was that complimented the fries perfectly. Chimichurri once the dipping sauce and steak were gone slightly overpowered the fries.
But all-in-all a very delicious dinner and well worth ending the summer on a high not on.
