Ēma Glenview - Glenview

My husband and I went for date night on wendnesday night. Was it my high expectations? We had hamachi & charred avocados, truffle salmon, sweet corn hummus, Brussels spouts & honey crisp salad, braised beef short ribs, slow cooked lamb pot roast. Our favorite was hamachi & charred avocados. Even though sashimi were very thinly sliced, I still tasted the hamachi and lychee gave that extra texture and avocados balanced the buttery flavor. Truffle salmon, crisp roasted garlic, chive, leaks gave smoky flavor made the dish taste almost like smoked salmon, but couldn’t really taste salmon and garnish was just too over powering for such a rich flavor fish. Sweet corn hummus, just tasted basic with sweet corn, nothing special about it. Brussels sprout salad, it’s just too much of raw hard textures, with dressing just tasted regular store bought fruit salad dressing. Both dinner entrée wasn’t tender enough, both short rib and lamb needs to be much more tender to be called braised or pot roasted in my opinion. It almost tasted dry. Overall foods were 3 stars Dessert, we got honey cake and sticky date cake. They both were 5 stars. Sticky date cake was still fluffy and moist inside and top was toasty and crunchy like brulee. Not too sweet and had that subtle date texture and flavor. Honey cake, I love how I tasted fresh warm honey and not to sweet but enough sweet. I would come back here just for the desserts and the atmosphere. Because their desserts so good, maybe having a good tea menu would be nice to pair with.