Sunday, June 17, 2012

Mouth-Watering Dinner Club in May

Watermelon margarita? Yes please. Las Palmas in Bucktown/Wicker Park has been around for a while and is clearly still doing something right. This place is not the best mexican restaurant you'll ever eat at, but it sits consistently at a solid B+. The summer drink menu has a nice variety of refreshing cocktails and the dinner menu had a fair representation of "something for everyone." My favorite dish of the night was the scallops which were cooked to perfection and bathed in a delicate honey ginger habanero sauce and paired with a coconut tomato risotto (pictured below). We were a little confused by the "airline chicken" since nothing about that sounded interesting. Aside from that, Chowhound Chick's May Dinner Club was another solid success.
Scallops at Las Palmas