Well we haven't been keeping up well with this blog at all, but last night we tried a brand-new restaurant that we loved and think is going to be a pretty happening place, so we wanted to share. It's called Movida, and it's a Spanish tapas restaurant down in the Walker's Point neighborhood of Milwaukee. You can check out their website here. They literally just opened on Tuesday, so we were lucky it wasn't crowded quite yet (well, and it was 7:30pm on a Sunday night). We really LOVED the place/atmosphere, with dim lighting and cool Spanish music. Our waitress checked in on us often and made great recommendations without hesitating. A lot of the menu is in spanish and has very little explanation, so she took us through each area as we were ready and explained it.
One thing I should warn you about, is the menu is pretty small, but we didn't have any trouble finding enough things to eat that filled us both up. Brad started with a spicy gin and tonic, which the waitress recommended (I guess gin and tonics are big in Spain?!), and it was HUGE and he loved it. It came garnished with a pepper! They had a pretty yummy looking cocktail and drink menu, and a pretty good wine menu too.
Our first tapas course consisted of the olive and pepper dish, which came with a selection of olives and one type of spicy pepper. We love olives - so we really enjoyed this dish. Along with that we had the Manchego cheese plate and Jamon serrano. The ham was good, but the manchego cheese was delicious!
Next Brad had the seafood paella, and I sampled the chorizo and rice from it. He said the seafood was delicious, and the rice/chorizo alone had awesome flavoring. The paella was smaller than what you'd normally get as an entree, so it was the perfect size for two to share.
Finally we had stuffed piquillo (peppers - you got 3) and jamon croquetta (like a little deep fried/breaded thing - you got 4), filled with the most delicious aioli. The peppers were decent, but the croquettes were AMAZING. We considered ordering another set of those, but wanted to save room for dessert. The waitress did recommend the salt cod potato fritter which we didn't get to try this time - so if you're going, I would maybe recomend giving it a try.
For dessert, we had a buttermilk leche cake with candied apricots on the top. The waitress recommended it. It was really sweet, moist, and delicious. I was dying to try the other two options, too, so we'll definitely go back!
So if you go, we highly recommend: The gin and tonics, the olive dish and manchego cheese platter, the paella, and the croquettes! We hope you check them out!
*Note: The waitress hinted that they will be starting up a weekend brunch menu soon, with great bloody mary's, so be on the look out for that!
