Amber

Papardelle

We went to dinner at Amber in Westmont.  It was just something we had heard about in the area.

What we ate:
Tomato Bisque Soup - creamy good soup for a colder day. It wasn't too thick and it was the perfect amount of acidity.

Tomato Bisque

Pork chop with squash puree and grilled grapes - massive 14 oz pork chop, the grapes were rather interesting - don't think we've ever had grilled grapes prepared like that before. What was great about this chop was even though it was very thick the flavor penetrated to the middle.

Papardelle with smoked short ribs, shredded Brussel sprouts, truffle and parmesan.  This dish had some interesting flavors.  The Brussel sprouts were truly shredded, but almost too thin of slices because we didn't get too much flavor from them

Pork Chop

Dessert - brownie with peanuts, caramel sauce, vanilla ice cream and bacon bits - so we succumbed to the whole bacon dessert fad thing and were conflicted about it.  Nick thought it brought a nice salty crunchy component to the dish but Natalie just thought it was a little weird.  Honestly without the bacon it really wasn't that unique of a dessert.

Final thoughts on Amber:
Food - every thing was tasty, we probably could have done without the dessert

Brownie a la mode

Service - The wait staff was great.  The only issue we had was that the entrees were kind of slow coming out; it must have been that massive pork chop they were trying to cook
Atmosphere - fancier than we thought it would be. There were a few larger groups and there looked to be a lot of regulars.  But for being a fancier place what was a little bizarre was having the owner's child (maybe she was around 10 or 11) as the hostess.  Some of the diners seemed to think she was cute, we just thought it was a little strange.