This was me at Sagra for lunch today. There’s been some buzz around the place recently for its Recession lunches, a menu of Under-$10 specials, so I decided to check it out (with my dad–hey, why spend even $10 when you don’t have to?!). In a cute little house on the corner of 17th & San Antonio, I almost felt bad being there for lunch instead of dinner. With huge black leather banquets–I don’t think you can call them booths when they extend to three or so tables–stark white napkins, and waiters in all black, I felt like I should be on a romantic dinner date. Regardless, we had a great lunch experience.
I ask our lovely, patient, friendly server about three billion questions, the main ones being:
Me: “Do you have whole wheat pasta or pizza crust?”
Hugh: “We do, let me go check to see what we have.” Time passes. “This week we just have whole wheat linguini. It does take about 20 minutes to cook, just so you know.”
Me: “Ok … do you have free-range meat or chicken?”
Hugh: “We buy locally whenever we can, so it often is. Let me check to see what we have this week.” Time again passes. “We couldn’t get any local chicken this week, so it’s not free-range. But the beef is. And the WILD boar. Although it’s from a farm, so I don’t know how it’s wild, but they even underlined it on the menu, so it’s WILD.”
Ahhh, Hugh. So great. Eventually we order, and I order a Primavera dish with the whole wheat noodles and make some joke about needing a salad (the Tagliata–delicious!!) and he says, “Oh we already started them for you, just in case.” What service!
And then there was the food. Outstanding. The Tagliata salad (could be remembering that wrong) was awesome–pistachios, white beans, olives and mozzarella ever so lightly dressed with a balsamic dressing and sprinkled with fresh pepper. My veggies were fresh and my pasta sauce heavy on the basil but delish. I think the noodles were a smidge too salty, enough to discourage me from bringing the leftovers home but not enough to discourage me from eating half of the enormous serving. Dad ordered the chicken cannelloni and said it was awesome–and it looked awesome. Alas, it was sad chicken, so I did not partake.
They’re doing a Valentine’s Dinner for $35 or $50 with wine pairings, the menu looks like this:
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