Ooooool\u00e9!\n\nI don't dabble in The Cardinal Bar very often but now that Cafe Cortadito has opened up shop there (in what apparently used to be the bar's old coat closet), I'll be a regular. From their small space, they dish out delightful meals with a Spanish flair. After a bit of bike riding, my fella and I treated ourselves to their Appetizer Sampler Platter and split The Dirty Bird sandwich.\n\nThe sampler offered smaller portions of their guacamole and chips, house cured olives, ceviche, croquetas papas and meat croquetas. The croquetas papas were melt-in-your-mouth-and-then-take-a-nap delicious and the ceviche had a light, fresh taste. I'm an olives girl so their house cured ones took the cake for me - a little spice, a lot of salt, a happy Katie. For $11.95, I'd say this was a pretty solid deal considering an order of the ceviche is $8.95 on its own. Share the platter with more than two people though and you might just jeopardize some friendships. You've been warned.\n\nThe Dirty Bird consisted of chipotle poached chicken thigh with roasted corn, sweet potato, jicama and cilantro slaw all on house-baked bread. Yes. Oh yes. It was a little sweet, spicy and all kinds of nice. Go.there.now.
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