The Food Revie: Malabar

If you’re looking for a place to eat with a trendy ambience, and a different take on your somewhat classic entrée’s, then look no further than Malabar, it will fulfill your adventure and your taste-buds.

THE AMBIENCE

As mentioned, I had always seen Malabar from the outside, but had never been inside. When opening the door to the restaurant, welcomed by a beautiful hostess at a desk to your right. One can’t help but notice a long winding staircase which leads to a special room up top, which our waitress let us know is a banquet room for special events, but also one can’t help but notice the trendy / modern look that the restaurant is aiming for.

The staircase is outlined and lit up with Christmas tree lights as it is very dark inside the restaurant. Near the bar/ lounge area, on the wall behind the hostess desk, there is a metal art-piece, and on the opposite wall, there are lights that change color and reflect off of the metal art. Keeping up with the modern art theme, the table we sat at a neat red light over it, a deep red couch to sit on, and a funny, sugar dispenser for iced teas. There are nine flat-screen TV’s in the restaurant, and on this day, only one TV was showing a college football game, compared to the eight TV’s that were showing CNN’s results of the election.

THE SERVICE

Our waitress was Miriam, a young, blonde-haired woman with a kind smile that was great at doing her job. She always made sure that our drinks were re-filled and that our food was correct and most importantly, she gave me 3 lemons for my water, when I had told her that I wanted iced water with extra lemon. Normally, waitresses mess up that simple request. Also, at the end, she made sure to split the bill up between the 5 of us who attended Malabar for this food review.

THE FOOD

As far as the food is concerned, there were plenty of choices to choose from. There were different kinds of soups, salads, sandwiches, entrée’s and pasta dishes, which all were slightly different from your average American grill type of menu choice, due to the ingredients used in them. It was almost as if they were American grill items with a world-like influence.

Our group started with an order of Malabar’s garlic cheese bread to start off, and for the price it was alright. The appetizer was about $3.95 and came with two decent sized half-loaves. The garlic bread wasn’t the best I’ve had, but the quantity was cool.

When it came down to ordering my main meal, I ordered the Malabar steak sandwich, medium, with the garlic mashed potatoes, and I was not disappointed. The steak was very tender, and had somewhat of a teriyaki marinate to it. Miriam told me that the tenderness was due to the fact that they marinate the steak for 24 hours. The mashed potatoes were good too but just a little dry, so I asked for a side of the mushroom gravy to accompany them and that made them fantastic.

Then to polish off this feast, Suzie wanted to know if anyone wanted to split a desert with her and I agreed to do so. We ordered the cheesecake, which on the menu had mentioned that it came with a raspberry sauce. Well, first off the cheesecake itself was heavenly, for Suzie, it was lightweight orgasmic, but when the cheesecake came, there was only a thin squiggly line of raspberry sauce designed on the plate as a garnish. That wasn’t going to do for Suzie and I. So we asked for an extra side of raspberry sauce and poured it all on top of the cheesecake. The cheesecake went from being good to being really, really, good, with that addition.

CONCLUSION

So, thank you, Fitz for making us do a food review, because without this assignment, I might not have been forced to check out Malabar, one of the best restaurants I have been to in the Sacramento Region.