Johm W

Joe, I have doubts about your credibility in this case. You keep bringing new stuff up. You didn't have the shrimp or your critique would have said it wasn't as good because no head on shrimp (like Paul Prudholme). Would the soup be delicious at 3.75or $3.95, how about $4.25. Good is good but is it worth it. Did you eat the bean soup or just look at the price. Reviewing a chicken caesar, Come On. Could it be you decided before you entered the space? I wonder if you could ever appreciate this place. Cabrerra, Sweet Water how about Outback (you are a serious Chowhound). You don't think $18.95 is cheap for rack of lamb (everything on the set menu was under $15.00). Your age and experience might be showing. Sounds like you have a real problem with the place yet you might go weekly. One day SBC, one day Euro, one day Blue Iguana, one day Zefferellis, one day Cabrerras, forget 2941 not worth second visit (per your review) how about El Manantail? Now your Veal Shanl was OK for the price. This was $17.00 Saturday night. In first review $17 was to much. Do you know the pricing at Zefferellis? Try high 20's to 30's for veal. I personally know Nino the GM at Zef's and he loves SBC. He told me he goes once or twice a week between shifts. SBC is not supposed to be a great restaurant. Could it be you can't enjoy it like Tom did because you went in already looking to hate it (like 2941 biggest disappointment of the year according to you) Could you sit back and enjoy the food and wine in a casual relaxed eclectic atmosphere like this? Why not order the tartare or the tamale? Why order the Chicken caesar? I also wonder about the trout. On Chowhound you raved about head on shrimp and where to buy. Well, did you notice the trout was served with head on shrimp? They must have lowered the price on Saturday. The lady who joined us for dinner was only charged $15.00 (nice size whole trout with four large head on shrimp, only problem is I like trout served head on). Some of the best meals in my memory included the whole picture and how we enjoyed it. Tom didn't say it was the best food. Thats it, I'm done with this thread time to move on!

See Joe's 2941 Review on Chowhound below. You would go after sunset but not worthy of second visit. It is good it's not good. Picturesque not picturesque. Very good with good prices but not worthy of a second visit .Back and forth. Same with SBC not all that good but possibly a weekly or biweekly stop. What? With all the other local places on par or better may not have to leave the neighborhood. http://www.chowhound.com/midatlantic/board...ages/18979.html

Thanks. Wanted John not Johm can't find my glasses.

We will have to disagree. I believe it to be a fined. The trout also was only $15.00. This place isn't for you. Some people don't understand it, I love market street atmophere but the food never comes through. Plus totally different syle. Eurobistro- the food is solid but nothing new, Blue Iguana be real bad food period. Stick to carrabas and your name dropping chefs.

We ate at SBC Cafe Saturday. We enjoyed it very much. The place is very eclectic not upscale, not fine dining, maybe bohemian. It is a very casual cafe so if you are looking for a place for a 50 year aniversary maybe not. We had to wait to get in for about 30 minutes which I really didn't want to do. Someone walked out and said the food was worth the wait so we did wait. We actually met another couple in line that we decided to join them at a bigger table. The hostess (maybe owner) laughed and said it happens all the time. I had the avacado soup with shrimp salsa and a curry crusted rack of lamb (this was the $19 dollar entree mention by Joe) I thought it was excellent and different. It was cooked meduim rare as ordered. The flavors were right up my alley bold and balanced. The price was also very good, I counted seven bones for $18.95. We had a bottle of 1999 Jordan Cabernet for $56.00. I usually see this in the $90.00 range. One person had the veal shank. They said it was good. Not adventurous enough for me. I agree six bucks for a bowl of bean soup in this cafe is high but I only paid $4.75 for the avocado soup. My wife had two apps for her meal. First tuna tatare (6.95), very fresh and presented well on a design of wasabi aioli with shredded nori and homemade candied ginger. Second course was a seafood Tamale (8.95), it was big enough for an entree. It was quite different than anything I have seen. It was like an open face corn tamale in the husk with a sauce over it that contained ancho chilies, scallops, crab and shrimp, very good. The other woman had a lemon grass trout cooked in bananna leaves served with head on shrimp and lemon rice. She liked it but said it was a little spicy. We split a dessert of mango kulfi (Indian Ice cream) w/ a mango, white chocolate, and habernero coulis. All homemade and a great finish. Like I said this is not fine dining. The specials seem creative and very well done but the menu is a cafe menu.