In one of those moments of serendipity (or something something), we had dinner at Milltown, a new restaurant in Carrboro, last night, and today the local paper shop gave it a review. It does show it's Federal roots pretty clearly. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The bottled beer list is quite overwhelming and the draught list, while much more compact, is loaded with good stuff, from the obvious (Dead Guy) to the quality locals (13 Rebels) to the Belgian (a couple... I can't remember which right now). We shared some nachos, which were damn good. Sarah had the fish tacos which, from the taste I had, definitely merit the praise in the review. I had the burger -- while it's not in any danger of cracking into the top of my burger list, I would definitely order it again. I'd rate it slightly ahead of Federal's just for not being swathed in pepper. I wasn't as knocked out by the frites as Cox was, but they were mighty tasty. Another advantage over Fed is that Milltown is non-smoking. The big disadvantage (for us) is that it's in Carrboro.
Well, you can't have everything. (where would you put it?)
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"you can't have everything. (where would you put it?)"
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I'll have to try the fish tacos. I am NUTS for a good fish taco but have never had a good fish taco outside of southern California, their place of origin.
from the credit where due dept: that's a steven wright line.
the best fish tacos i've ever had were in AZ but the restaurant was owned by San Diego expats. my memories of them, however, are not specific enough to use as a comparison for Milltown's