R'evolution Recommendations

Here's a review I did on R'evolution previously:

Restaurant R'evolution review (Posted on 7/26/12 at 10:23 p.m.)
Dined at Restaurant R'evolution with my wife last saturday. I was a little worried, at first, when they changed my reservation time on me. After a couple of phone calls they were able to rectify this issue.

I really like the space and find it a beautiful restaurant. We were seated in the center more formal dining room, it did seem odd that this was the only room with table cloths.

It was obvious that they spent a lot of time in training the wait staff. Service was perfect and left nothing to be desired. Our waiter, I forget his name, was from Iowa and studying agriculture at UNO. I found his choice of college for his major curious, but I digress.

I thoroughly enjoyed my meal. The crispy sweetbreads were prepared with Herbsaint Meunière and Forest Mushrooms. Probably my favorite sweetbreads I have ever had. My entree was the Seared Sea Scallops and Foie Gras
Truffle White Bean Purée, Celery Salad, Bacon Vinaigrette. The scallops were perfectly seared and I found the celery salad component took this dish to a whole new level. I really thought the Cohiba smoked scallops at Root was my favorite, but this preparation was better.

My wife had the heirloom tomato salad with olive oil ice cream for her starter. This dish was good, albeit gimmicky, since each tomato slice was cut a different way, but the olive oil ice cream was incredible. I'll have to try make that at home soon. Her entree, was Red Snapper with pork bellies. She really wasn't impressed with this dish, but I think she didn't order well since she doesn't really care for pork bellies. I tasted the pork and found it very good.

For dessert, we shared a trio of ice creams, red velvet creole cream cheese, crunchy peanut butter, and coconut greatfruit. The first two listed were out of this world, the last one, kind of meh.

The wine list is contained on an ipad, and even though I own one, I found it cumbersome and would have preferred to have a more traditional list. I wound up spending a little more than I would have liked on wine because of the ipad.

Overall, a really excellent dining experience, definitely not inexpensive ( I think it was $330 with tip) but similar to dining at Stella! or August. Will definitely be back.

Somebody's gonna have to explain "Red Snapper and Pork Bellies" to me. I love both, but those things seem like they'd go together like, well...red snapper and pork bellies.

The components of the dish don't really mingle too much as they are on opposite sides of a very large dish. I guess for the health conscious, the omega 3's from one side counteract the saturated fats from the other.

Thanks everyone. Think I will try the scallops and beef tartare

many better dishes than the scallops

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Rohan, you think beef tartare or the sizzling oysters for the app?

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that's tough, but they are quite different so go for whatever you're in the mood for. I personally think the oysters are better. but the tartare was not run through a food processor when we went.. it was minced.

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Or what about one of the charcuterie boards?

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Our group of 8 and not a single person had anything off the charcuterie board .. we said we would go crazy with that next time. Looks quite good though. We did pretty much order everything else off the menu though.

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I am intrigued by Bird in a cage

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It was interesting. A lot of depth of flavor for a chicken dish.

I would rank the apps thusly:

1) frog legs
2) sweetbreads
3) death by gumbo
4) sizzling oysters
5) tartare