In early March, we visited Salute restaurant in downtown Bend, Oregon. This restaurant serves “contemporary Italian cuisine.”
This Endive Salad included endive, walnuts, bleu cheese, walnuts, and green onions. It had a light vinaigrette dressing. This salad was my favorite part of our meal. All the flavors blended together well. Note, this item is not currently listed on the menu so check the website ahead of time for availability.
The Scampi included wild ocean prawns, capellini, white wine, garlic, shallots, butter, and fresh herbs. This dish had good flavor and had a nice serving size of prawns. However, the prawns were a bit overcooked. I know from cooking them myself, it’s easy to cook them for too long.
The Hand Made Ravioli included raviolis stuffed with four cheeses with your choice of spinach alfredo or house Bolognese meat sauce. While this dish had good flavor, the serving size was way too small. There were only seven very small raviolis.
The word I would use to describe this restaurant is “light.” Light flavor is great, but tiny, light serving sizes are not, in my opinion.
The Banana Millefeuille contained layers of caramelized phyllo & banana pastry cream, butterscotch sauce, coconut “snow”, whipped cream, and roasted walnuts. The dish was beautifully presented and I liked the crunchiness of the phyllo dough layers.
We arrived at Salute restaurant at 4:00 pm, right when they opened, without reservations. Service was slower than we are accustomed to.
Though there were a few glitches, the food itself at Salute was good. Fingers crossed that our next experience there goes a little more smoothly. 🤞
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Now I am hungry! 😋
I'm glad my pictures made you feel hungry! 😀
The dishes looked entree sized to me. Pity about the prawns
The prawns tasted good, just a little rubbery in texture. Half of the time I make them, they get overcooked. Maybe someone should send me a personal chef. 😉
You know, prawns are one thing I haven't cooked. I don't cook seafood much except for frozen tempura battered fish in the oven which is soooo yummy. Oh yes I do a great chilli squid usually with rice. haven't made that in a while. I need to get to the fishmonger but the temptation to buy fish and chips is strong as they do a delicious fish and chips 😋
Now you're making me have a craving for tempura, Brian. I just had fish and chips from my favorite food truck on Wednesday. It's so good! 😋