I really wanted to love Long Story Short, but I didn't. Inside an ivy-covered brick building with beautiful design inside, it's a noteworthy restaurant. Service is efficient and proper. (I wouldn't say it's friendly.) The bakery inside makes all of their bread and pastries. I so wish I loved it.
Where it fell short was in the food and drink. Stopping by for lunch on a Thursday in July with my six-year-old daughter, we ordered the bread with meats and cheese, the watermelon and cucumber salad, and the pork dumpling.
The bread was perfect texture and the butter was excellent. The pickled veggies were fine, but the meats and cheeses were all too smoky.
The watermelon and cucumber salad almost got there, but the skin on the cucumber clashed with the watermelon and the sauce didn't compliment the salad.
The pork dumpling is NOT your traditional dumpling. It's massive and more like a very dry piece of bread. The pork inside had good flavor, though.
The local white wine I got has an interesting story. It's made inside the garage of a punk rocker. Cool story, but not for wine. The wine fell short. Funky, but on the worse end of white wine I've had in Czechia. (And Czechia's white wine is usually good!)
Maybe we ordered wrong, but I won't run back to Long Story Short. read more