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Burgers ok, nice place, good food, good beer, a little pricey, but is Aventura.. WHT do you want eh!?
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Wow...I live by Bar Rosso and have come a few times for a glass of wine. I am quite sad to see this...hopefully it'll make it through.
Bar Rosso
10/6/2009
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Bar Rosso Restaurant & Vinoteca
19004 NE 29th Ave, Aventura
305-933-3418Hours: 11:30am-midnight daily
Prices: Appetizers $6-$12, pastas $8-$24, entrees $14-$21, desserts $8Full bar; corkage $25, Free self-parking
Reservations accepted but not required
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Yahoo BookmarksBar Rosso sounds like just what the condo-dense Aventura neighborhood behind Loehmann's needs: A wine-savvy place to meet friends for a bite and a sip. But the warehouse-sized space that was once Ivy's seems cold and empty, the staff untrained and the food simply not up to the task. One of the best ... and cheapest ... ways to experience the place is at the long gray and white marble bar during the 5-9 weeknight happy hour when a selection of appetizers is half-price. Though not all the plates are perfect, they are at least fresh and hot,
Ambiance: The design is an appealing mix of rustic and elegant with its well-worn wooden floors, scarlet booths and shimmery mosaics, all illuminated by twinkly glass chandeliers, but there is no real spark or charm.
What Worked
- Tender, flavorful fried calamari threads
- Tasty but dry meatball Parmigianno sliders on toasted buns a size too big
- Truly lovely golden arancini (fried risotto balls)
- A nice pair of shrimp scampi with a healthy dose of garlic over a lovely white bean ragout
What Didn’t Work
- Inedibly salty red sauce
- Tiny pizzas flat in taste & form
- So-called calamari linguine - sautéed strings of squid with a few specks of zucchini – with an off-putting, weirdly fake, smoky flavor
- A tower of arugula cemented in place with a gluey goat cheese dressing and garnished with pistachio dust and odd yellow cubes that might have been canned pineapple
- A tawdry plank of rainbow trout with all the charm of a wet handshake
- A slab of rib-eye as thin as the final issue of Gourmet magazine piled with scorched red onions and flavorless fried polenta bricks
- Alfredo sauce masquerading as carbonara with no discernible egg yolk, no char on the pork and not a speck of parsley
- Bomb-like balls of dense, fried donuts
- An unfocused wine list without a single French pinot
- Badly stored & poured red wines
- A single selection of rose marked up three times retail
Most dismaying was the fact that no one ... not a waiter, a manager, a bartender or a busser ... seemed to notice or care that we were barely eating most of our food. For all that, the idea behind Bar Rosso remains a good one, and the folks there seemed nice enough. Perhaps with major retooling it could still be just what the neighborhood needs.
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