95A closed permanently in 2024.
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This is the last restaurant in the A95RP subproject; after
this, we just have to report on a few more restaurants at Baseline and 287, and
we will have made a complete circuit of Lafayette!
We know 95A quite well, as it is a personal favorite for both
lunch and dinner. They also serve brunch on weekends, but I've never tried that
menu. We went early on Friday night because we knew it would be crazy busy
later on, and we got a table in a reasonably quiet corner of the front room. We
thought about trying something from the sushi menu, but we ended up getting the
coconut shrimp appetizer instead. The coconut crust was nicely crisp, and the
dipping sauce was tasty. I ordered an entrée from the specials menu,
pistachio-crusted sea scallops with roast fingerling potatoes and beets and a
side of watercress with a drizzle of pomegranate syrup. G ordered the
Mediterranean lamb from the regular dinner menu: grilled lamb loin chops, garlic-studded spinach, zucchini-potato
pancakes, and tzatziki sauce. We both thought our meals were delicious.
It was my birthday,
so we shared an order of sticky toffee pudding for dessert. This was also very
good, though not quite how I remembered it from a few years ago. David, our
server, told us that the baked desserts come from the neighboring bakery, Button
Rock, which is a relative newcomer, so it probably was different the last time.
It came with a birthday candle and compliments of the restaurant. Thanks,
David! The service was good. The noise level had gone way up before we left but
was still tolerable. I had never been seated in the front room before, so I'm
not sure how it compares to the back on a Friday night.
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| 95A outside and the front room after it filled up a bit |
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| There were more coconut shrimp on this plate, but we ate some before I remembered to photograph it. |
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| G's Mediterranean lamb |
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| My pistachio-crusted sea scallops |
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| Sticky toffee pudding with a birthday candle |
