Undercurrent

9 Reviews on “Undercurrent”

• David R. Brown

  What absolutely fantastic service. Stopped by for lunch and the attentiveness and friendliness of the staff is top notch. This place is also very reasonably priced for lunch. Everything looked and tasted great. My only criticism is that they need more healthy items on the menu. I had the chicken salad sandwich, which, while tasting excellent, had been briefly cooked in butter on the outside making it a little greasy on the outside. I’m going to try it again and ask them to omit that step. If they do I’m going to move their rating up a notch

  July 24, 2017, 12:00 am

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• FredB

  Always A Pleasant Experience. His tastefully decorated restaurant continues to offers some of the finest, most creative, dining choices in Greensboro, beautifully and efficiently presented. I’m one of those voices crying in the wilderness that believes this restaurant lost some of its unique charm when it moved out of the cramped, but intimate location, on South Elm Street, now occupied by Table 16. Bigger is not always better, but the food remains the focus, and we’re not in Kansas any more.This is a spacious layout, which includes a large, separate bar, with seats at an actual bar for serious drinkers or lone diners with laptops, and tables for for the more elegant, casual drink. The dining area is basically a large, open rectangle made up of three rows of tables, with a nook or two offering some privacy. – but the main sense is one of efficiency, rather than intimacy. We ordered our drinks – Lemon Drop Martini for my wife, an extra dry vodka martini (often called vodka on the rocks by the more cynical) for me. Our waiter quickly ask whether a sugar coating on the rim of the Lemon Drop Martini was wanted – nice call, this was going to be good.We ordered the Country Pate as an appetizer. This proved to be a large, two piece serving, each of which was partially wrapped in bacon. The taste was ok, but the consistency was strange – more like a loaf, than a mousse, almost dry and grainy. This came with a thin, dark brown, dry wafer – two wrongs do not make a right. No reorder possibility here.My wife ordered the rack of lamb-small ( you have a choice, small, 2 chops; large, 4 chops). This came with collards (who knew?), and thin sliced sweet potato layered in phyllo. This worked very well, and the lamb was cooked just as ordered – rare+, which means it was warm, with a cold red center, and some remaining nerve sensation.I ordered the crab cake special, an addition to the usual menu, which consisted of two 5 1/2 oz cakes made up almost entirely of jumbo crab meat. These were mounded with grilled asparagus and pickled pears & apples – chef has a thing about pickling, and mounding. The crab cakes were excellent, the asparagus still crunchy in that healthy sort of way, but pickled fruit might best be served with something other than delicate crab, especially if placed on top of the mound, with gravity pulling the pickling flavors downward.We finished with a cheese plate and port. Several of the cheeses were local (Chapel Hill area), and the plate size was huge. Overall a nice food experience, with excellent service, and plenty of parking. Life remains good.18 Jun, 2011Still A Favorite. This tastefully decorated restaurant continues to offers some of the finest, most creative, dining choices in Greensboro, beautifully and efficiently presented. I’m one of those voices crying in the wilderness that believes this restaurant lost some of its unique charm when it moved out of the cramped, but intimate location, on South Elm Street, now occupied by Table 16. Bigger is not always better, but the food remains the focus, and we’re not in Kansas any more.This is a spacious layout, which includes a large, separate bar, with seats at an actual bar for serious drinkers or lone diners with laptops, and tables for for the more elegant, casual drink. The dining area is basically a large, open rectangle made up of three rows of tables, with a nook or two offering some privacy. – but the main sense is one of efficiency, rather than intimacy. We ordered our drinks – Lemon Drop Martini for my wife, an extra dry vodka martini (often called vodka on the rocks by the more cynical) for me. Our waiter quickly ask whether a sugar coating on the rim of the Lemon Drop Martini was wanted – nice call, this was going to be good.We ordered the Country Pate as an appetizer. This proved to be a large, two piece serving, each of which was partially wrapped in bacon. The taste was ok, but the consistency was strange – more like a loaf, than a mousse, almost dry and grainy. This came with a thin, dark brown, dry wafer – two wrongs do not make a right. No reorder possibility here.My wife ordered the rack of lamb-small ( you have a choice, small, 2 chops; large, 4 chops). This came with collards (who knew?), and thin sliced sweet potato layered in phyllo. This worked very well, and the lamb was cooked just as ordered – rare+, which means it was warm, with a cold red center, and some remaining nerve sensation.I ordered the crab cake special, an addition to the usual menu, which consisted of two 5 1/2 oz cakes made up almost entirely of jumbo crab meat. These were mounded with grilled asparagus and pickled pears & apples – chef has a thing about pickling, and mounding. The crab cakes were excellent, the asparagus still crunchy in that healthy sort of way, but pickled fruit might best be served with something other than delicate crab, especially if placed on top of the mound, with gravity pulling the pickling flavors downward.We finished with a cheese plate and port. Several of the cheeses were local (Chapel Hill area), and the plate size was huge. Overall a nice food experience, with excellent service, and plenty of parking. Life remains good.

  November 1, 2014, 1:25 pm

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