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July, 2009

Eat Chow, continued ...

The menu offers a variety of culture with sandwiches, salads and "hot chow," such as the Media Noche Cubano sandwich with slow roasted pork loins, the White Bean Hummus with freshly made corn chips and basil oil, and the Line Caught White Albacore Tuna sandwich with fennel, celery and flat-leaf parsley.

The Spanish Style Roasted Chicken Salad has ingredients like peanuts with smoky tomato vinaigrette and Medjool dates. I was also interested in the Grilled Chicken Paillard with its lemon sherry vinaigrette. Eat Chow also has a separate breakfast menu served from 7 a.m.-11 a.m.

But I settled on the Seared Rare Ahi Tuna Salad for $11.25. My brother ordered the Ground Turkey Burger with Muenster cheese and Truffle Parmesan Fries for $8.75. His girlfriend went with the Baja Style Fish Tacos for $9. The rest of our meal came up fast, and we greeted it right away with hungry stomachs.

The tuna salad offers four pieces of fish and a pile of greens dressed in a yuzu honey miso vinaigrette and topped with sesame seeds. The ahi was cooked correctly and tasted fresh, and the dressing was new to me, something I hadn’t tried before. But it complimented the fish nicely.

The fish tacos come in a pair with a side of black beans. I tasted the same sauce from the fried green tomatoes in the tacos. The sauce worked well on both dishes separately, but I wouldn’t order them again together.

The moral of my Eat Chow experience? The food is well-priced and tasty, but your best bet might be to order out – that way, you can avoid the wait and do some shopping.

Eat Chow
Address: 1802 Newport Blvd., Costa Mesa
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, 7 a.m.- 2 p.m.
Phone: 949.650.2469
Web: eatchownow.com

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