Located inside the distinctively painted tavern called Redbar, this near-hidden restaurant’s nondescript location only adds to its over-all mystique. The festive bar area gives way to a quiet back room dining area.
A barbecue-centric place, The Saucy Swine offers a Friday fish fry sub-menu, and we dove in. The potato chip-encrusted cod dinner comes with four large pieces of mild, flavorful fish, a cup of coleslaw and a generous heaping of potato skins. The shrimp boil platter is loaded with medium-sized shrimp with drawn butter, sausage, boiled potato, a small cob of corn dusted with cayenne and flavorful rye bread. Both meals are certainly large enough to share. We started off with the Korean Brussels appetizer (crispy, fried brussels sprouts, chopped bacon, sesame seeds, Korean Kick barbecue sauce and curry aioli), and to be honest, that pretty much sealed the deal. It was fantastic. You will not be disappointed. (Blaine Schultz)
