The Urban Kitchen and Bar is located on Shrewsbury Street, in the building that used to be Coral Seafood. It’s a fairly spacious location with plenty of seating and plenty of parking.
As an appetizer, we started with the House Made Ricotta, with truffle honey, chives and crostini. This came as a large scoop of the ricotta, with a light drizzle of the truffle honey. This was absolutely fabulous. Smooth and creamy with the honey adding some sweetness, this was delicious both on the crostini and standalone.
Next up as the Arugula and Squash Salad, with curried pistachio and pickled raisins, served over a small portion of the house made ricotta. There was no dressing on the salad but the mix of flavors from the ricotta and other ingredients proved that no dressing was needed. This, again, was delicious with a great mix of the sweet ricotta and slightly tart raisins. The pistachios provided a nice crunch/texture creating an overall really nice app.
For dinner, I had the Chicken and Dumplings with mushroom consommé, swiss chard, beech mushrooms and toasted garlic. The chicken was skin on breast meat and cooked to perfection but the consomme was a little too salty for my liking. The dumplings had just enough texture in them to counter the wilted chard and mushrooms nicely, and could stand up to the chicken as well. The overall flavor of the dish was still quite nice, but I couldn’t get past the saltiness.
My parting comment would be that the portion sizes are on the small side. 2 Apps, a main course and dessert left me full but certainly not stuffed.
