Thursday night braised short rib special, a lot more food than it looks like in the photo, plenty of meat, a nice helping of spinach, flavorful potatoes.
Speaking of wine, we went to Zin American Bistro because the wine list, which they promote as having something like 500 choices, incuded a lot of bottles that appealed to me. Turned out that they didn’t have any of those. Seems like they hired someone to put the list together and never restocked the non-crowd-pleasing things like moderately-priced Bordeaux or updated the list to reflect the reduced breadth. If you like big, ripe, oaky, high-alcohol reds, they probably have 100+ choices.
We went to Essence, the restaurant at Two Bunch Palms, because we were staying nearby. The menu had a lot of sort of Gwyneth Paltrowy stuff on it but some normal-sounding food as well. The grounds seemed quite beautiful so far as we could tell at night.
For starters we had some nice grilled octopus and a very good assortment of wild mushrooms with rich, cheesy polenta. For my main I got piri piri chicken, which was very good, nice seasoning though not spicy. Turned out the chiles were little strips in the excellent greens. The green beans were also excellent. All the produce was first-rate, the only place on the trip where it didn’t seem like it was all from Costco or Sysco.
I thought I took photos of everything but the app was acting up so maybe they were lost. I tasted the fried chicken, on the bone and juicy, very light panko (?) breading, maybe better than my dish.
Are there any recent Palm Springs discussions or reviews? Going in a few weeks and would love some suggestions, ideally close to the heart of town. Currently considering Rooster & Pig and Shanghai Red’s as more chill options for dinner. I’m never wowed by mid to high-end restaurants in PS. For lunches, I’m always a big fan of The Sandwich Spot and there’s some place called The Real Italian Deli that looks good on the Yelps.
yeah I’m actually going this weekend so if there’s anything to report in terms of the solidity of that map, will let you know here. I reached to my writer directly for the top recs. She recommended Rooster and the Pig, Birba, and Sandfish.
Chopped salad, mushroom arancini, spicy salami pizza and spaghetti pomodoro. Good standard Italian fare. They didn’t have a very large wine list but most ~12 bottles of red were between $35 and $45. Forgot the picture of the pomodoro but it was much richer and buttery than a traditional red sauce pomodoro. They had Toto toilet and urinal.
If anyone has any bakery recs for Palm Springs, I’d be much obliged. Going out this way to celebrate a couple of birthdays. Would be great to have dessert.
Thanks!
I did not have any of the cakes or cheesecakes but they all looked very good at Art’s Deli and Bakery. The black and white cookies and rugelah also looked good but the line was too long even at 9:30am. Traditional Jewish deli type of desserts if you’re into that.
I saw the mention of Sparrows on the Korakia thread but figured I should put my question to @yogachik here. There seems to be a few options to choose from on the property. Which part do you prefer? Thanks!
A few options where? Sparrows has just one kitchen. A menu at lunch and a menu at dinner. Breakfast is a buffet box (used to be a buffet, now comes in a box - although I haven’t stayed there in a couple months).