5/5 stars
Note: my restaurant ratings are derived from the following formula:
Tastiness - 100%
Service - 0%
Patron Attractiveness - 0%
Attentiveness to Water refills - 0%
You do the math.
I was with a table of 6, and shared all dishes. Below, they are ranked in terms of tastiness (to me):
1) Seafood Paella - this isn't listed on their online menu, so don't know what it's exactly called, but if you ask for the "seafood paella dish" they should know what you're talking about. It's phenomenal.
2) Lamb Sliders - it makes sense that this dish is so tasty at a restaurant targeting middle eastern food for americans. Middle East is the world's best for lamb, and America is the world's (only) for sliders. We ended up getting 2 more orders of this dish.
3) Grilled Octopus - who knew you could make Octopus sausage? Abigail Street did, and they did it very well.
4) Mozza Dani - again, these people know their lamb, though, this dish was a little too sweet for my taste buds. The meat, still, is extremely well cooked.
5) Pan Roasted Cod - I call this a middle eastern fusion restaurant, but they prefer the term "mediterranean" (it's comparatively similar to the difference between "midget" and "little people"). Anyway, Mediterranean is a sea, which means there's fish in there, which means this dish is delicious (though not the best cod you'll ever have).
6) Gnocchi - tasty and fresh, but again, you can find better gnocchi elsewhere in the city
7) Chicken Dish - Not listed on online menu, so don't know the exact name, but this genre of restaurant is not going to specialize in chicken.
Don't be discouraged by the dishes bottoming out my rankings; they're still of very high quality, just not the best things that this restaurant has to offer. Everything they brought out was piping hot and had just been placed in the serving container - as a former waiter, I can respect how hard it is to time this right. They brought each dish out as it became ready instead of bringing it all together, which ensured there was no dish left behind for the cooling gods to abuse.
One more thing to note - we got there at 620pm on a Saturday and waited for an hour for a table even though there was nobody in front of us on the list. We were told that most tables had JUST sat down; when planning your arrival, consider typical times that people go to eat, so you can time your meal in between table rotations.
Abigail Street - be mine?