Tonight Melanie and I went to one of our favorite places to eat, HopCat. In case you don't know about HopCat it is a beer bar (rated #3 in the world by Beeradvocate) in Grand Rapids that has a rotating beer menu with dozens of different beers on tap at any given time. It also has what I would call upscale bar food. There are a lot of bar type foods on the menu such as burgers, tacos, and sandwiches... only better.
Tonight I had The Angry Bird sandwich. It was a fried chicken breast covered in buffalo sauce with tomato, onion, and blue cheese dressing on a brioche bun. It was very good. You could tell that the chicken was breaded and fried in house as opposed to frozen then reheated in a fryer. It was juicy and the breading was very flavorful, with many herbs and spices in it. The buffalo sauce was a typical buffalo wing sauce, but was not too hot. In fact Melanie (who has little tolerance for hot food) said that it was eatable, meaning it wasn't too terribly hot. The blue cheese dressing actually tasted like ranch, so maybe they substituted it in. Either way it was a nice compliment to the wing sauce. On the side were the wonderful "Crack Fries." They are seasoned fries and are addicting... like crack.
Melanie had the chicken tacos. They are slices of grilled chicken breast on a blue corn tortilla and topped with tomato, onion, and scallions. On the side was dirty rice, salsa, and a garlic cream sauce. The tacos taste very fresh, and the sauces compliment all the flavors going on, not mask them.
We also had a starter of loaded crack fries. It was a plate of crack fries covered in the house cheese sauce, pepper jack cheese, jalapenos, bacon, and onion. We got ours minus the jalapenos. It was reminiscent of a loaded baked potato, only it would have been a crack potato. Anyways, its a pretty good starter if there are multiple people around as it can be heavy.
HopCat gets my gold seal of approval for local eateries.
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