pacific moon
so i wanted to post a restaurant review but i realized i haven't really done a good restaurant review in a while. i chose one from my personal journal 
ladylamia from back in november '06, my first experience with what would become one of my favourite restaurants: pacific moon @ newport on the levy, newport ky. (it is still a favourite despite the disasterous night that lel and i visited on her spring break visit, when the sushi chef left because he needed ingredients and didn't come back for 2 hours, prompting us to not have sushi as we planned and lel getting freaked out thinking the fish in her dish was chicken which thankfully it turned out not to be...)
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last night was d's last night here, we went out to pacific moon at newport on the levy to celebrate his birthday which is tomorrow.
i had put together a list of restaurants that i thought he would like based on the menus and the premise that we wanted a place that had good steaks. while looking at the menu for another restaurant on the levy, brio, i decided to go through the directory. pacific moon caught my eye, i saw that their kitchen is open until 2am. i had just read a piece in the times [note: ah yes, i have always been a great lover of the new york times] about restaurants in nyc staying open late or all night like that, how more gourmet and trendy places are doing that, so that got my attention. when i started reading the menu i was like "oh my God, i have to go to this restaurant!!!!" literally everything on the "little pleasures" (appetizer) menu sounded good.
i read the menu to d over the phone, not in a "we should go there for your birthday" way, because asian is sort of a default for us, of course we're always going to want chinese or japanese food so i was trying to do something more out of the ordinary. just because i knew he'd go "yum" just like me. in the end he read 7 menus and said "you know i'd really rather go to pacific moon". because everything on the menu sounded like something he'd like. so we went to pacific moon...
and we were definitely NOT disappointed!
check out their dinner menu [2008 note: the pdf menu is gone now so i deleted that link] in pdf format or visit their levy page and click on "dinner menu" for the java/html version.
we started out with drinks, i always like to choose a "special" drink when i go to a restaurant. something that is their speciality or that you can only get there, usually something different. it's fun to experiment. the "greentini" caught my eye right away a concotion of green tea, sake, and some other stuff that i can't remember, but alas they were out of their greentini mix. we were actually a bit worried because our waiter (who looked surprisingly like an actor who i can't quite place...) just walked away after i ordered my drink and seemingly forgot to take d's drink order. turned out he didn't think they had the mix so he was double checking. i ended up going with a pear sake tini thing which was pear sake and a mixture of tropical fruit juices that was lovely, flavorful, not too sweet, and it was my first experience with sake so i was pleasantly surprised that no scary tastes overwhelmed me.
d ended up getting a mojito and i did give him a hard time about it ;)
we decided that we were going to get a bunch of "little pleasures" instead of entres, so that we could try a lot of different things, all of which it seemed impossible to choose between otherwise.
we ended up with:
soup
chicken coconut basil soup
sushi
yum yum roll - "spicy crabstick & cucumber"
shrimp tempura roll - "shrimp tempura & asparagus"
little pleasures & assorted
stuffed crab claws - "snow crab claws wrapped in minced shrimp and crabmeat coated in crispy rice noodles"
5 spice baby octopus - "a traditional chinese delicacy lightly fried, tossed with our five spice powder."
cold sesame noodles - "flat noodles and bean sprouts in a slightly spicy peanut sauce."
sesame vegetables
dessert
key lime tart
mango ice cream
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ladylamia from back in november '06, my first experience with what would become one of my favourite restaurants: pacific moon @ newport on the levy, newport ky. (it is still a favourite despite the disasterous night that lel and i visited on her spring break visit, when the sushi chef left because he needed ingredients and didn't come back for 2 hours, prompting us to not have sushi as we planned and lel getting freaked out thinking the fish in her dish was chicken which thankfully it turned out not to be...)------------------
last night was d's last night here, we went out to pacific moon at newport on the levy to celebrate his birthday which is tomorrow.
i had put together a list of restaurants that i thought he would like based on the menus and the premise that we wanted a place that had good steaks. while looking at the menu for another restaurant on the levy, brio, i decided to go through the directory. pacific moon caught my eye, i saw that their kitchen is open until 2am. i had just read a piece in the times [note: ah yes, i have always been a great lover of the new york times] about restaurants in nyc staying open late or all night like that, how more gourmet and trendy places are doing that, so that got my attention. when i started reading the menu i was like "oh my God, i have to go to this restaurant!!!!" literally everything on the "little pleasures" (appetizer) menu sounded good.
i read the menu to d over the phone, not in a "we should go there for your birthday" way, because asian is sort of a default for us, of course we're always going to want chinese or japanese food so i was trying to do something more out of the ordinary. just because i knew he'd go "yum" just like me. in the end he read 7 menus and said "you know i'd really rather go to pacific moon". because everything on the menu sounded like something he'd like. so we went to pacific moon...
and we were definitely NOT disappointed!
check out their dinner menu [2008 note: the pdf menu is gone now so i deleted that link] in pdf format or visit their levy page and click on "dinner menu" for the java/html version.
we started out with drinks, i always like to choose a "special" drink when i go to a restaurant. something that is their speciality or that you can only get there, usually something different. it's fun to experiment. the "greentini" caught my eye right away a concotion of green tea, sake, and some other stuff that i can't remember, but alas they were out of their greentini mix. we were actually a bit worried because our waiter (who looked surprisingly like an actor who i can't quite place...) just walked away after i ordered my drink and seemingly forgot to take d's drink order. turned out he didn't think they had the mix so he was double checking. i ended up going with a pear sake tini thing which was pear sake and a mixture of tropical fruit juices that was lovely, flavorful, not too sweet, and it was my first experience with sake so i was pleasantly surprised that no scary tastes overwhelmed me.
d ended up getting a mojito and i did give him a hard time about it ;)
we decided that we were going to get a bunch of "little pleasures" instead of entres, so that we could try a lot of different things, all of which it seemed impossible to choose between otherwise.
we ended up with:
soup
sushi
little pleasures & assorted
dessert
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