Comments on: The Little Bridge & The Tiger https://www.saltshaker.net/20190520/the-little-bridge-the-tiger Casting a little flavor (and a few aspersions) on the world of food, drink, and life Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:36:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Pile o’Pizza – SaltShaker https://www.saltshaker.net/20190520/the-little-bridge-the-tiger#comment-268623 Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:36:50 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=28017#comment-268623 […] concert. The chef behind the place is Maxi Matsumoto, who is also, interestingly, the chef behind Tora, and the Aldo’s restaurants mentioned above, but isn’t, as best I can tell, involved […]

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By: dan https://www.saltshaker.net/20190520/the-little-bridge-the-tiger#comment-265806 Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:12:06 +0000 https://www.saltshaker.net/?p=28017#comment-265806

Revisit to Tora in the evening, solo. Tried the rabbit sheng jian bao, or baked-steamed buns filled with rabbit and ginger. Delicious, though perhaps a touch salty – both the filling and the sauce below. The hot sauce was excellent. And, a current seasonal special, roasted bone marrow. Tasty, but a little over-roasted, to the point where about half of the marrow had simply melted away. Nice touch of the fried garlic chips and an excellent chimichurri sauce, a good contrast with the pickled radishes. I didn’t quite get the griddled bao doughs – they lose that lovely sponginess when grilled and flattened like that and kind of come across as dense pancakes. I enjoyed, overall, but not as much as that first lunch visit. Plus, service was very perfunctory, not overly welcoming and quite disorganized. Not sure what was going on, but three waiters didn’t seem to be able to keep track of the mere half dozen tables of customers, a total of about 15 of us, in the room.

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