Food: Cafe 522 and chicken livers

Awesome title, eh?

So last night, we wanted to take our shiny brand new car out on the town, so we headed to a new restaurant in downtown Sonoma:  Cafe 522.  In the two and a half years we've lived here, this is the third restaurant in this space... so we figured we better check it out fast!  It's been getting good reviews and you gotta love their theme "We love bacon".  On the entree menu, it even has the option "Add bacon to any meal: $3". 

We ordered an appetizer:

Farm Egg Noodles hunters-style chicken livers, hen of the wood mushroom, local egg

Which counts as #17 - eat new foods (2/10 - CHECK).  I honestly can't remember eating chicken livers before.  Unless the gross Liverwurst that mom used to make me eat for lunch (I blame you, Katie!) counts.  But I don't think it does.  Anywho, the noodles were fresh and the mushrooms and liver (which was chopped into small pieces) were in a rich sauce.  It felt like a very nice fall/winter dish. 

Nick ordered the 

Tolenas Farm Quail braised leg hash, fennel caramel, kale, fried quail egg  (he added bacon, of course)

And I had the 

‘Angry’ Laughing Bird Shrimp anson mills rice grits, fra’mani chorizo, lemon, wild arugula, brandy butter, garlic toast

The food was good and they had a nice menu of local beers and wines.  We had beers and were very entertained.  Which is a good thing because the service was sloooooowwww.  Overall, we enjoyed the food but it was pretty expensive, so it might be a little while before we return. 

And to #63.  Eat at new Sonoma restaurants, I say (1/10) CHECK! 

Have you ever eaten liver voluntarily?? 
**And this post is a good lesson in learn-to-take-pictures-if you're going to blog about it!! Sorry for the boredom!!**