DC Restaurant Review: West End Bistro

West End Bistro (WEB) has had a restart with a new chef and it was all good. Tonight for dinner, Jamon Iberico, molten goat cheese salad, salmon roast chicken and fries. This was wrapped with a chocolate, salted carmel pot de creme. Eric Ripert your team did excellent. Michael Richard's Central is my current go to for dinner lunch etc, however I think that has been replaced with WEB. I was impressed.

The bread was warm, crusty, chewy and airy and the butter was salted and creamy. It was like this one time at Les Halles when I was there with Jay and we were served a baguette right from the oven. Yes that is Heaven.

Jamon Iberico was good, but while it didnt transport me to Museo de Jamon it did satisfy a ham itch that has been with me since spain. It comes with truffled white bean, arugula salad and toast. The dish was simple direct and all the elements on the plate balanced the jamon and each other. While I would rather be at the counter of Museo this small plate of ham was very satisfying. I might go and just eat that.

Goat cheese salad- ham, tarragon vinagrette, beets and goat cheese. Yes it was yummy.

Have you had perfectly roasted chicken. The skin was crispy, the meat juicy and you know what that made for perfect chicken. I'm not a fan of stuffing this was just country bread stuffing and it was just straight forward good.

Salmon with black butter truffle. Enough said.

The chocolate caramel pot de creme was salty sweet goodness with rice crispies on top. Personally, I like a bit more sweet but I really enjoyed the salty. It had a bite to counter the sweet subtle chocolate. This was very good.

The service was professional, friendly and attentive.

Go you'll enjoy it.