Walking into Modesto brings Spanish color and light to any day with colors that are earth tones of orange and brown. On Monday nights, the places is filled with dancing, Spanish style and will truly leave you feeling as though you hopped the Atlantic for an evening in Spain.
I have been to Modesto many times and consider it to be one of the best dining spots in St. Louis. Though the menu offers some full course meals, the point of Modesto is in ordering the tapas. A tapas meal is great for a group of friends that want to share and enjoy the small plates. But it is equally appealing as a romantic dinner to share with the one you love.
The menu changes often with all the standard favorites, like Dátiles Relleno, which consists of bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with cabrales cheese. The sweetness of the dates and the pungent cheese will leave you wanting more, but then that is the idea of small plates. You want to try them all while at the same time discovering that one favorite that wish was the entire meal. Another on of my favorites is the Pinchos de Cordero which consist of Moroccan-style grilled lamb kebabs with mint-yogurt sauce and tomato-onion salsa. My partner chose one of her favorites, the steamed mussels in a tangy sauce made of hard cider, chorizo and peppers. On the new side, we tried a roasted quail stuffed with Majon cheese and bacon covered with red wine and fig sauce. Thought it was good, the flavor was a little weak in comparison to the Dátiles Relleno flavor which packs such a punch. But the quail were very tender and tasty as they were.
We enjoyed a great temporanillo wine, Vina Sandasol 2004, that complimented each of the plates. It was clean, balanced and silky and made for a wonderful dining experience. The chef
is Grace Dinsmoor
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