3500 Emerson Avenue
Parkersburg, WV 26104
Wood County
Phone: (304) 428-5854
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by Pam Shuter on My friend had some coupons from Restaurant Week (smart, Zahav, to encourage your RW customers to come back), so off to Old City we went. I like the airy, open space, and the staff was warm and welcoming right from the start. The beer list is small and unremarkable, but you can try an Israeli lager, and there are lots of interesting cocktails (including the famous lemonade) to choose from. We opted to do the $34 tasting menu, and by end of dinner, I decided it's a total steal. Started off with small portions of many different salads. I, jadedly expecting something on par with the salad bar at a falafel place, wasn't too excited, but how wrong I was. Every salad was delicious and different. Even the things that are pretty standard fare, like tabbouleh, seemed new again, with fresh, flavorful ingredients mixed in just the right proportions. I think my favorite was the spaghetti squash and pumpkin seed salad (believe), but the pickled carrots and beets got high marks at our table, too. Hummus was next. Ho hummus, you say? Not here. This stuff was blended perfectly and served with fluffy, chewy bread and a puddle of rich, fruity olive oil. The Turkish hummus, served warm with butter and garlic...so good, I don't even know what to say. Haloumi, with its warm goaty cheese, figs and pine nuts, made me think of Tria with a fond smile. The fried cauliflower, salty and crispy on the outside with a minty sauce, really is as good as rateclubs says. I think my favorite dish was the sweet persimmons, served with smooth, fatty cheese and bitter shredded cabbage. These contrasting flavors were sublime. The eggplant vegetarian main dish was raveworthy, too. Baby eggplant was charred and spiced, and it came with lots of tahini and perfectly cooked Egyptian rice. This should be the poster child for hearty, filling vegetarian entrees. My omnivorous friends ate all kinds of animal protein that made me cringe - lamb tongue, cow cheeks, duck hearts (I am only lying about one of those) - and loved it. They have a good selection of coffee and tea and digestives before dessert, and my mint tea was nice and herby. I had the apple terrine for dessert (perfect) and nibbled on my friends' honey and pine nut thing (delicious) and persimmon cake (delectable). Throughout the meal, the service was exemplary. It can be hard to get the timing right with multiple courses of small plates, but the meal was paced very well here, and the staff were on it with the water filling, dish replacing, etc. At one point my friend remarked offhand that she wished she had a clean fork to try a different dish, and one appeared within seconds - these guys are good. My only complaint is that our waiter peaced out after dessert and it took us a long time to get the check and then pay it. I thought about taking off a star for this, but then I thought about those persimmons and couldn't do it. You want a 5 star meal? You got it.
by Tee A. on Okay i only go there after happy hour for the strip show (Thursdays Lady's night freeeeeeee!).. and ohhhhhhhhhh boyyyyy , the latin puerto rican lover.. yummmmyyyy after that leave .. LEAVE QUICK! Stinky men , horrible music sweatiness.. a hot nasty mess, on allllllllll levels... yucky yucky yucky
