Restaurant Review: XS

XS is a Baltimore City restaurant and bakery that does everything "excess" except their food. The music was blaring, making it rather difficult to carry on a conversation with two of our best friends sitting right across the table from us. The lights were so XS-ively dim, that we could hardly find our plates of XS-ively luke-warm fried rice and pan-fried noodles. The music was an XS of incoherent phrases from the DJ.




Compliments worth sharing, however, were the spicy wasabi mayo sauce and the tempura-style calamari appetizer. XS-ively addictive. And to their credit, the dishes themselves tasted rather good, if only they were a bit hotter.

Pricewise, the bill was fairly manageable. The only complaint we would file is the XS-ive over-pricing of the sushi menu. ($3 for one piece of yellowtail.) On the upside, all of the entrees were priced at or around $8 per dish.

All-in-all, the initial feel was an exciting XS of eclectic art and people, but quickly dissolved by the end of the night.

...I guess what they say really does hold true: It doesn't matter where you are, but who you're with. Reconnecting with two lovely ladies made the Xperience anything but XS-ive.

Rating:

Salman: 3 stars
Jackie: 2 stars
Overall: 2.5 stars