I’ve been to 4th & Swift three times now, and loved it every time. It is always a restaurant I recommend to people, and one I can feel comfortable sending pretty much anyone to. For my earlier, full review click here.
Last week I started out with a cocktail. I’m always nervous ordering cocktails at restaurants because I’ve gotten spoiled by places like Top Flr, Cakes & Ale and Leon’s Full Service, where the mixologists are gods. At 4th & Swift I had a good cocktail, but it wasn’t a great cocktail. It was actually one that I had for the first time at Cakes & Ale- a drink with pineapple and habanero in it. At Cakes & Ale it was a gin gimlet, whereas at 4th & Swift it was tequila-based. Either way, I’m a fan.
We had a lovely cheese plate and GREAT food. I had a small plate, the lamb, and it had a really great crust on it. We also split a dessert, the “coffee & donuts”. This is one of the most well-executed, original and delicious desserts I’ve had in a while. It was a stack of small, piping hot, sugary donuts with a coffee flavored gelato to dip them in. Divine perfection.
The wine list is also impressive. I was able to find a bottle of Elizabeth Spencer wine, a vineyard I discovered the last time I was in Napa. It’s a small and relatively new vineyard, but they make terrific reasonably priced wine.
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