Puffed bread topped with olives, cheese and arugula. Delicious!
I stumbled across Slow restaurant in downtown Berkeley when I was on the hunt for a cheap but delicious pre-movie meal. The restaurant had opened a few months earlier, and boasted a “SLOW” cooked menu at an affordable price.
Although portion sizing can run a bit small on the mains, we were pretty impressed at what we found at Slow. Really good food, served to you fairly quickly at a decent price.
More food porn after the jump.
So as mentioned, we started with the puff bread as one of our appetizers. It was super tasty, but I wish we had ordered more, because between four people, it was gone in one second. We also started with an organic market vegetable crudite platter with hummus. This was also tasty.
The crudite platter, although from this shot, you can really just see the hummus.
The braised short rib with mascarpone polenta and shallot confit, $12 USD. Ridiculously good.
Chicken confit with roasted squash, potatoes, greens and a cranberry relish. Again, simply one of the best chicken dishes I have ever had, and all for $11 USD.
Slow's dessert of the evening, the apple cobbler, $3 USD. Not the richest cobbler in the world, but certainly not bad.
At the end of the meal, I just wanted to order more food and keep eating. I will definitely be hitting this place up again, perhaps to check out their popular lunch menu.
~LTG!
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Slow
1966 University Avenue
Berkeley, California 94704
510-647-3663
Tags: Berkeley, California, Slow restaurant
