La Dolce Vita (the cafe and the experience) can be found at 484 Cherry Street in downtown Macon, adding yet another delightful eatery to the Hobbit's Shire. With its coffee bar/patisserie atmosphere, the environment is relaxed and the staff friendly and attentive. Unlike most other Macon restaurants, La Dolce Vita offers something of a light Tapas-style menu of classic and intriguing Italian-inspired dishes priced from $3.00 - $5.00. The menu boasts a number of soups, features some excellent salads, and offers a variety of sandwich/roll-up/pastry items.
The Hobbit and fellow travelers each tackled a couple of dishes apiece, making for a satisfying light dinner all round. Items selected and enjoyed by the group included an avocado and crab salad, spinach and bacon quiche, smoked salmon spread with onions and red peppers on black Russian bread and Gazpacho soup. Although every item on the menu was not available, including the highly recommended chilled almond soup, all were impressed by the quality of the food chosen. Hungry Hobbits might need to consider three dishes.
Tempting desserts were on display, but the Hobbit settled for an espresso doppio to round off the evening. La Dolce Vita is well worth visiting for a workday lunch, an afternoon coffee break, or a light dinner.
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"The three-meals-a-day rule is a human invention. I don't believe in it myself. Meals are way-points in the journey of life and I, well, like to think that I need lots of way-points."
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"When it comes to food, sometimes the only thing that matters is volume; at other times it is quality. On rare occasions, I try to balance the two."
"When it comes to food, sometimes the only thing that matters is volume; at other times it is quality. On rare occasions, I try to balance the two."
The Hobbit
3 comments:
you seriously missed out by passing on dessert. If the pastry chef wasn't already married, I'd ask her based on the peanut butter chocolate pie alone.
That's classic! Actually, I went back to La Dolce Vita a couple of weeks ago and had another fantastic meal, including a slice of white chocolate cheesecake. One day I'm going to show up at lunch and stay until I've worked right through the menu! The Hobbit
Just now came across your blog while googling for information on downtown restaurants, trying to decide on a place to eat before seeing my first-ever show at Theatre Macon. I was excited for a moment, then disappointed to see your last posts were in 2009. Having caught up on your old reviews now, I hope you'll find time and/or interest to start up again!
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