Retro by Voltaggio
May 6th, 2023
There isn’t a shortage of celebrity chef restaurants. While searching through them, I saw that the Voltaggio brothers from Top Chef were opening up a restaurant called Retro. I had seen these chefs at a Hawaii Food and Wine Festival a few years back and one of the brothers had a restaurant in Los Angeles and I had dinner there a times and loved the experience. This new restaurant was a modern takes on 80s classics.
My biggest problem was deciding what to have. Everything on the menu looked good and I wished we were there with more people so that we could share and order more. We decided on Cheese and Crackers or rather pork rinds whipped brie, chicken pot pie, and VoltaggiOs which was served out of can just like SpaghettiOs. I couldn’t help but notice that we weren’t the only ones looking around to see what other people ordered. and how it came out. For dessert, it was a molten lava cake!
There was plenty of memorabilia throughout the restaurant and they played 80’s hits. As we left, I noticed the payphone in the elevator. I found myself thinking, it doesn’t seem that long ago when payphones were everywhere and yet now, they are almost extinct. I left feeling full while trying to figure out if I could go back a second time to try some of the things that I didn’t get to try.
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