Mocha Bleu

I’ve been to Mocha Bleu over a dozen times the last few months. As many of you know, Mocha is a well-designed, trendy styled dairy restaurant, bakery, sushi etc. This is part of its success, yet also part of the problem.

I happen to love the place and think the food is great (service review below), but have spoken with numerous people that don’t agree. I fault them and not Mocha. The menu is way too long and people just don’t know what to order, so they experiment with randomly selected items that sound good.  People, if you don’t know what something is, ASK.

I, on the other hand, go for one of several pizzas (I like the fake meat ones) the sushi sandwich (best sushi in town) and the onion rings (second only to Noah’s Ark). On a related side point, there’s an onion ring problem in the neighborhood – too many places serve Kineret like you’re in a school cafeteria.

The rugelach are great, but for some asinine reason, the bakery closes before the restaurant does, so they rush you through dessert. How hard is it for the server to grab me a few rugies or a piece of cake?

The place is very clean and outside dining area is great.

Service – Katilin is the best waitress in town and its only a matter of time before she gets hired to go work for a customer (I know a little about that having gotten my first career job that way). But, the maitre’de on Saturday night constantly reminds people that there is a minimum charge, like I’m at some club.  Stop that. The food does come out very quickly thankfully.

All in all, it’s a great place to recommend to people coming from out of town, or to meet someone. You won’t be embarrassed by the bathroom and will be impressed by the presentation.

In conclusion, it’s costly, but worth it if you know what you want.

Mocha Bleu – 1399 Queen Anne Road – 201-837-2538  www. Mochableu.com