Salvation Café

By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ  |  February 4, 2009

Other popular items at Salvation that night were the vegetable dumplings with edamame, the "Salvation bowl" with roasted portabella and sesame braised greens over noodles, and the pad Thai with chicken, shrimp, or tofu. Though the bar side at Salvation can get a bit raucous when a large gaggle of 20-somethings pours in the door, the quieter side had families with young children who were also enjoying themselves.

The homemade dessert choices were bread pudding, chocolate cake with a blueberry coulis ($4) and Salvation's chocolate-banana "purses" with ginger ice cream ($6). The guys split the former, and the gals the latter. The purses are tightly wrapped wontons, deep-fried with mashed banana and a good portion of dark chocolate inside. When the purse opens inside your mouth, there is a burst of deep chocolate flavor. All of that and ginger ice cream, too! The blueberry sauce was a good match for the cake, and, with a little help from their friends, Rob and Bill polished it off.

Salvation is offering half-price entrées every Sunday, and seven items that are $9 Monday-Thursday evenings. In these slim economic times, it would appear that this café does, indeed, offer a kind of gustatory salvation.

Johnette Rodriguez can be reached at johnette.rodriguez@cox.net.

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