IMG_7987_2 Ardesia Wine Bar in the Theatre District had been recommended to me by a couple of foodie friends so I thought I’d give it a try for just a nibble.

I was quite pleased with this fun casual place: good grub, friendly service and affordable happy hour wines.

We sampled both the Pedro Ximenez, Elki, Elqui Valley, Chile and the Spanish Monsant, Cellars Can Blau for $6 a glass – while grazing first on a tri-colored heirloom tomato salad with shallots and sherry vinegar, which we held onto to dip our bread into the flavorful dressing.

Then on a cheese sampling – $30 for a plate of six with accompaniments. (Tomme Chabrin Pyrnees, France, pasteurized goat milk with pickled green bean; Sainte-Maure Wallonia, Belgium, raw goat milk with picked fennel; Hooligan, Connecticut, USA, raw cow milk with homemade potato chips; Pecorino Gregoriano, Abruzzo, Italy, organic raw eve milk; Ossau I Ratty, Pyrnees, France, pasteurized ewe milk with figs; and,  Abbaye de Belloc, Aquitaine, France, raw sheep milk with a home made graham cracker.)IMG_7992

We wouldn’t have indulged in dessert, but the homemade graham cracker served with the cheese was so delicious that we had to order the S’Mores dessert made with those.

– bonnie

Ardesia
510 W 52 Street
NY 10019
212.247.9191
www.ardesia-ny.com

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