Taking Flight

Well, Hello! This is my first post here on "Lil Vixen Stirs Things Up". I made this blog to discuss food, wine, restaurants and other fun and fabulous things!

Today I would like to tell you about a new restaurant that my boyfriend and I checked out last Saturday night. It is called Flight Restaurant and Social Lounge located in Huntington Beach, California. It's a swanky type of fusion restaurant open for dinner until 10 pm at which point it turns into a club/lounge. Fusion cuisine is pretty common in Southern Cal restaurants. This particular restaurant was described as classic American Cuisine fused with Italian and Asian, and it lived p to that. The food was excellent, the portions were not too big and not too small and the decor was quite lovely. Serene and yet somewhat edgy in my opinion. Curtis said it reminded him of a cross between the restaurants found in Miami and New York. Since I have not been to either of those cities as an adult, I couldn't tell you if I agree from actual experience, but based on pictures I have seen from restaurants in both of those cities I can kind of see what he meant by that.

Here's how our night went:

We arrived at the restaurant at 7 pm hungry and ready to use the gift certificate we had received months ago. We walked in and were quickly greeted by the friendly hostess. She took us to a very nice table and we realized while walking across the room that we were literally the only people in the restaurant. It was kind of eerie. I mean, this was a beautiful restaurant on a Saturday night in a very social area of town. Where the hell was everybody? I realize there is a pretty big recession going on and that people are cutting back on things, but this was ridiculous. I have literally never been in such an empty restaurant in my life! It was like being in an episode of "The Twilight Zone." It's a good thing we aren't one of those couples that needs to people watch in order to have something to say, otherwise, it could've been awkward.


See? It's gorgeous! But it was soooo empty! It was as if we had rented out the entire restaurant for ourselves. Since it was a "date night" for us, this was nice, but still, a little creepy. The staff was very nice and I feel like they handled us as the only patrons very well. They were attentive and yet not too hovering or over attentive. This can be tricky. So, I give them kudos for that.

We ordered and then we asked the waitress if it was always like this. We figured that it had to be a bit of a fluke because the restaurant has been there for a while and was still in business. She said that dinner could be "hit or miss" but that it generally got busy at night after 10 when it turned into a club and lounge. I could kind of see that being the case, so, I guess that's how it must go.

The food was quite tasty! We both gave it two thumbs up! I started with a compressed salad of greens, figs, apples, cheese and nuts. It reminded me of the compressed salad at Catal which is one of my favorite tings ever so, I was quite pleased. The main difference was that Flight's salad has figs and Catal's has dates. I think I really prefer the dates.


Curtis started with a tuna appetizer that was also quite good if you like sushi. It came garnished with avocado and a spicy dipping sauce and it looked like this:


Our entrees were also fantastic! I had a poorly named, but quite delicious "Airline Chicken". It came with sauteed bell pepper and garlic mashed potatoes. Curtis had the filet mignon which came with bacon wrapped asparagus and sauteed mushrooms. The mushrooms were delicious. I didn't try the bacon asparagus or the steak because I don't eat red meat or pork, but Curtis said it was really great! Unfortunately I also didn't get pictures of those! Sorry!

Dessert was amazing. We got a dessert "flight" that included a mini chocolate lava cake (one of my most favorite foods ever!), a tiny scoop of ice cream, and a baby passion fruit panna cotta. I'm not normally a huge fan of panna cotta but this panna cotta was REALLY good. Curtis had a few bites. I finished off the rest.



Aside from the kind of weird, kind of cool feeling of being the only people in the restaurant, it was a very lovely night with good service, good food and good atmosphere. I would heartily recommend it to anyone who lives nearby or visits Huntington Beach. I'd love to go back some other night and check it out later to see how it is as a lounge.