A true “Whole in the Wall”
“Super cute inside and really yummy homemade food!”
If you’re looking for a charming hole in the wall restaurant, this is the place for you. It provides a quaint and calming environment, as well as scrumptious food. As soon as you open the doors you are greeted with bright smiling faces welcoming you in, along with relaxing music in the background. Customers sit quietly, reading in the corner, writing on a notebook and having small chit chat. I immediately could picture myself spending quality time here. It’s that kind of place where you feel welcome and feel at home the instant you step inside.
43 S Washington St, Binghamton, NY 13903
The warm, wooden purple and maroon tones provided a source of welcoming. Following through the doors, the same warm feeling continued on. Inside lay a scrapbook on a pedestal with years and years of news articles in it. “40 years of fresh, farm-to-table food” it reads. It was the sweetest representation of their history. After preparing our meals, the chef came out with our food and greeted us himself. He thanked us for coming and helping out his business and smiled the entire time we walked out.
My friend Sara and I happened to come to the restaurant at the exact time they close for their lunch break, however the staff was nice enough to still let us stay as long as it took for them to make our meals from scratch and take it to go. With nowhere to sit and eat, Sara and I put our creative wits together and ended up putting the back seats of her car down and eating in her trunk. Her car filled with the smell of garlic, chicken and scallops. For me, half the experience of food comes from how and where you eat it, and this experience confirmed that. We sat in the back of the car, legs crisscrossed, propping our food up on the back of her pushed down car seats. Rain poured outside, streaming down the windows in every direction, but we were safe inside, eating happily with our plastic forks and metal tins.
Stir fried vegetables with wild scallops.
This… was quite possibly the best vegetable stir fry I’ve ever eaten. Each bite of vegetable oozed with flavor, cooked enough to be crispy, but not too much to be soggy. There was a thick layer of parmesan cheese and garlic, placed on top. That, paired with the fresh, wild scallops provided a unique and flavorful bite to eat.
Garlic ball
The garlic ball was something quite refreshing to try. It was a fancier, more flavorful version of a regular dinner roll. The roll itself tasted like a mixture between rye and wheat bread, with a very dense inside. The bread was infused with a garlic taste, with more parmesan cheese embedded on top. Each bite was better than the former, only growing my love for our newly found favorite restaurant.
You’ll leave with a smile this big!