re: Alon Shaya and John Besh collaboration Shaya opens today on Magazine

just got back…holy shite this place is unreal

they have 9 different small plates you can share with the table…you can get all 9 for freakin $21!! that is unreal for the quality of food. everything we had was amazing…the tabouli salad was the wife's favorite…agreed it was extremely fresh…the meshing of ingredients was brilliant here…my favorite was the lutenitsa which is shaya's mom's receipe…it's bulgarian puree of roasted pepper, eggplant, garlic and tomato…my wife and I both agreed the pita was the best we ever had…it appears the wood brick oven was for the pita only…what an investment that was…but pretty smart since a majority of his dishes go very well with pita bread…seeing as we live a stone's throw away from this place, we will certainly order out at least once a week here…so excited to have this one in the neighborhood

we had good service too. waitress appeared slightly nervous but she was knowledgeable about the menu and very courteous…Shaya stopped by the table to personally thank us for coming and introduce himself…he was making conversation at every table.

the specialty cocktail menu is still being worked on so we weren't able to try any of those…they had 2 craft beers a good stout and little sumpin sumpin…that's all I need to enjoy a meal like that…here's a pic of our small plates.



oh yah forgot to add the bobka dessert was phenonmal as well