Small city meets upscale at 10 West Restaurant and Bar in Cicero. This dimly lit date escape is trendy with an modern menu whereas staying moderately priced. We received a number of suggestions from neighbors telling us to strive their flatbread pizza, so we’re checking 10 West off our checklist!
10 West is a part of a brilliant cute strip of eating places in Cicero that features Pizza Home, DeLullo’s, and Bronko’s Pizza amongst others.
The tables had been fairly far aside from one another, which is okay as a result of it makes it extra intimate for a date evening. Nevertheless it appears to be like like they eliminated some tables for COVID and simply by no means put them again.
We began with pretzel breadsticks, the scrumptious variety you see at just a few different locations on the town. We must always do a complete put up itemizing all of the locations you will get these similar pretzel breadsticks.
I additionally need to pause and acknowledge the tomato horseradish soup. It was so good! It had simply sufficient chew with out making your nostril run. I need to serve tomato horseradish soup for the vacations now, it feels each fancy and like a household recipe for consolation meals. Truthfully the soup was my favourite a part of the meal.
I ended up getting the Gator ‘N Grits bowl and Chris received the Meatlovers flatbread pizza. The bits of deep-fried gator had been a bit of powerful – I believe I am only a sucker for the novelty of getting one thing you do not get daily. The cheddar grit cake was truly phenomenal, and the andouille sausage was flavorful and hid the blandness of the gator.
However you are not right here to speak about gator, let’s discuss concerning the flatbread pizza. It was evenly cooked with a crust sturdy sufficient to carry as much as the toppings with out flopping over, and with a nice however not overly crispy crunch. Let’s simply say it was completely first rate, recent toppings, however we’re not raving about it and pondering again on the expertise I’ve extra fond reminiscences for the horseradish soup than I do for the pizza.
The environment is a winner, and all in all it was a great expertise. We’d positively return for one more date evening!
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