Nouvelle Latino fare at Tabu is fresh, light, inventive, and ooooh so tasty. Half a menu’s worth of nummy Tapas - including house-marinated olives, empanadas, and Chilean Cerviche; a tomatoe-based Lobster Bisque with chunks of it’s namesake shellfish as big as your head (okay, maybe your toe); Fish Taco’s with three different sauces - chipoltle crema, jalepeno-lime crema and a mango-habenero salsa - spanning progressive degrees of heat; and a lovely roasted tomato salsa that does not necessarily come standard to your table the moment you take your seat.
Oh ... and thou shalt not forsake the Caipirinha - a muddled cocktail of cachaca (a sugar cane brandy), and lime. Go ahead, try to have just one.
This restaurant makes me smile. The food service is perky, cheerful and efficient; the South-American rhythms contagious, and the after-hours dancing the most outright fun you’ve had in ages (Salsa on Thursdays and Saturdays, lessons provided; Reggae on Friday night, no lessons required). Caveat: the drinks, though truly some of the best in town, are a little slow coming out of the bar. On a busy night this knowledge is power -
order your second drink as the first is served ... ;-)
