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Going to be spending some hours working in Brecksville in the
foreseeable future, so we stopped in to see my office and stopped
for lunch on the way out. Creekside has a strong online following,
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Nice looking space inside of a fancy-dancy strip plaza, they offer in or out door seating. Our server was quick and friendly, no complaints there. Steph had mentioned she had a hankering for chicken satay, which I had been planning to make until we saw a beef version on the appetizer menu. Thin strips of marinated flank steak are fiercely seared on a grill, set on sprigs of arugula and dressed with a mild Thai peanut sauce. Hankerin’ halted.
I ordered their pot roast, which is served with onion straws and
gravy, all atop a potato pancake. The pancake was well-seasoned and
loaded with herbs which pushed their way through the heavy gravy.
The beef was tender, the onions crispy, the gravy rich, we were
doing well. |
 Well Appointed Place |
 Nutty Beef Satay |
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Steph went with the sandwich/soup combo, citrus tuna and lobster bisque. The name might be creekside but you are safer choosing from the land dwellers than those of the sea. We ought have read the menu a little closer on the sandwich. It’s tuna salad (says so right there on the menu) but I think we were looking for a less processed interpretation. Past that, it wasn’t bad, not terrible but not a reason to return.
The bisque was nothing but disappointment. It did contain chunks of
seafood. There was no tasting what that seafood might be as the dull
sludge it was drenched in could have rendered the entire meal (and
likely several others) void of their own flavors. The pasty goop was
loaded with a confusing mix of spices which ran together towards
nowhere. If there was lobster involved in the process is was a
terrible waste of an expensive ingredient. If it weren’t for the
soup, we would have had a pretty fair lunch, but it was poorly done
enough, it may be all we remember.
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 Tuna Salad Was Not Expected But OK |
 The Menu Says Soup Is Served With Crackers Made In Their Own Bakery?!? |
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 Oh, Yeah. We Tried Cake |
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See, I was right. We tried a piece cake, which was fair, peach
cassata cake. Completely forgot about it till I opened the pictures. |
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| C | B | B | B | F- | C- | ||
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