'Twas two nights before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a person was home, not even my spouse;
The pantry was empty and the fridge was bare,
In hopes of a good meal at Netties, soon I would be there;
Thinking of my Ho’s who participated in this thread;
While visions of lamb chops danced in my head;
We break away from this Christmas story to review my second visit to Nettie’s.
First I"m pretty sure my cover is blown, @gcaggiano (you might have to take over for incognito reports) since both Carrie Bradshaw (no jab intended but I honestly don’t know her name) and who I assume is her husband came over to check on me, this time even asking my name.
Since I was flying solo I did accept the bread and it is excellent! Next I ordered the house salad with meat and cheese ($16 or $ 11 sans meat and cheese), the salad is very good and honestly enough for 4 people to share. I took more than half home.
Next up was the lamb chop ($24) one-double cut chop and it is delicious. As he mentions above he serves it untrimmed and there is an ample amount of fatty burnt ends that are truly delectable. I was able to cut off a strip of fatty meat off the bone and it was the equivalent of lamb pork belly, very enjoyable, however at $ 24. for a single chop I can see where people could have an issue on price/portion. A normal order of lamb chops would be 2 -or- 3 double cut chops would place this in $48-$72 range as a full meal, that’s pretty steep. I would get this again simply because it was fantastic and I’ll spend on what I can’t get or make better myself.
Still being a little hungry I placed an order of cavatelli, sausage and brocolli rabe. I’m kind of neutral on this…the homemade (I’m assuming) cavatelli was very good, excellent texture but the sausage which is homemade wasn’t very ample. It was chopped up as was the brocolli rabe and the pieces were too small to appreciate their flavor. I would have preferred it “less chopped” as my previous disappointment in the broccoli rabe’ and the same with this dish. Flavor overall was good, just not my preference in preparation, and this time I did request grated cheese. I received a half full ramekin dish, for the love of God I beg, please be more generous with the cheese!!! YMMV!
$ 54. pre-tax&tip and without my couple of martini’s so it’s again not that bad even with the pricey lamb chop. So my second trip and it was overall very good and I will be back again, perhaps wearing my fake glasses nose and mustache.
