...you can be in Charlottesville, eating at Zocalo! John and I skipped over to C'ville on Saturday just to get up out of here for a little while, and a friend had reommended Zocalo. (He also recommended reservations, which we were psyched about after the hostess quoted the couple in front of us a 2-hour wait at 8:30pm!).
We started with butternut squash soup w/ a big dollop of crab salad in the middle, and a spinach salad with masa-encrusted fried oysters and bacon-cider vinaigrette. Both were amazing, especially the oysters! Followed that with some mussels in spicy tomato broth - perfectly cooked, and we were eating the tomato broth like it was soup. YUM. We're trying to get back in an old habit of splitting a salad, app and entree, so we shared the beef short-rib osso bucco (which was prepped in the traditional osso bucco style, but wasn't veal). It was incredible. We took most of it to go so that we could try a dessert: mexican chocolate bread pudding w/ bailey's creme anglaise. We each had about two bites and then somehow mustered the willpower to send it away, but OHMYGOSH it was delicious. Melty and saucy and ooohhhhh.
Ended up meeting both owners before we left - two nice, young guys who just seem so psyched to be succeeding. We'll definitely be back - let us know if anyone wants to road trip!
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LOVE ZOCALO! We went their a couple of years ago and make road trips to C'ville just for the dining experience. Next time you go, try their Mojito. Thier version is a new take on a classic drink. Every dish they serve is fantastic, especially their lamb and tuna. Both are perfectly cooked and out of this world.
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