Went to Sasha's for the first time yesterday night to celebrate Stewart P.'s birthday with some of his friends. I didn't know anyone there, so it was a great opportunity to meet people and make new friends as well as sample some of whatever Sasha's had to offer.
Honestly, this place is more of a 3.5 stars for me than a solid 4, but I bumped them up since everything was pretty decent, and I even had leftovers for today at work.
Stewart ordered the World Tour cheese plate, which was very good. It had a ton of cheeses and I can't remember all of the names. My favorites were a dessert cheese that looked sort of caramel-ish in color and it was divine! Stewart said it's sold at Whole Foods so I might have to swing by there some night after work and grab some! Mmmm! I am gonna get so fat! Hehehe. I also enjoyed their brie that came on the plate. Smooth and creamy and not too sharp!
He ordered a bottle of Wente Chardonnay which was really smooth and not super acidic like some other chardonnays I have tried. I would recommend getting bottles here instead of glasses because the glasses are way overpriced. I am sure the bottles are just as overpriced but at least you are getting a bit more for your money with a bottle. The problem with me is that my bf doesn't drink, and I can't really finish a bottle on my own, and I doubt I could drink half and take the rest home, corked, anyway... so I need to come back here again with a big group to enjoy it more.
I ordered a pizza for myself, and a glass of pinot noir which cost about $18 in total, I think. The wine was tasty, no complaints, but for $10 a glass, it better be damned good. It was more expensive than the pizza! The pizza was only "okay." I got the 9" smaller one and still had leftovers for lunch the next day, but I also stuffed myself on the cheese plates prior to that too. The basil added a lot of good flavor but the crust was too bland. It was puffy too, kind of like those Red Baron frozen pizzas you get in the supermarket. Yeah, if I am comparing the pizza to frozen pizza, it wasn't that great. But, I tried his friend's veggie pizza and it was wayyy better. So maybe the trick is to order something other than plain cheese pizza.
Stewart got a Nutella and Banana crepe for dessert and I stole a couple of bites. It was pretty good, but nothing I couldn't easily make at home for a fraction of the price.
I think I want to come back to this Sasha's, probably on a non-busy night (which is probably impossible b/c it was a Thursday night and the place was packed!) with Sean and a friend or two, and get a bottle of wine and and entree, although the cheese plates were so good, I'd want one of those too. Sean would probably eat their pizza or maybe a sandwich, if I'm lucky. ;)
Also the service was kind of slow but since we were getting happy on the wine, we didn't seem to notice much, but it was kind of tedious at times. I don't know how I'd feel if I returned and had to wait 20 minutes to get to-go box for my pizza.
The food here is served on gigantic slabs of broken granite. Good idea because it looks cool, bad idea because it weighs a metric asston. At least the servers will all be buff after they'ved worked here? ;)
PS: The parking around Sasha's makes me want to punch a baby. Or two babies. Or a stack of babies. Actually, the parking here makes me want to nuke a stack of babies! Seriously, it's that bad! It wasn't even a weekend and I had to walk about 3 blocks. Thankfully it's a nice neighborhood because I was alone! :( read more