Restaurant: Dolce Vita

500 Westheimer Rd
Houston, TX 77006

For some time now, I've been meeting up mochi and chacco every Saturday morning for some activia in bolivia and after a good sweat sesh it's off to feast like kings and queens. Understandably, calories lost and calories gained cancel out each other, or rather, gain > loss, but I'm a bona fide believer in my personal motto of WHO CARES! We all know I could really care less about losing weight and being healthy. I do it cos I love hanging out with great friends and gossiping the afternoon away. There was one Sat that I suggested we try out Dolce Vita cos I had been hearing about this one particular dish. Truffle Egg Toast. A thick piece of bread toast with a fried egg on top, drizzles of truffle oil along with shaved pieces of truffle and then finished off with a sprinkling of parmesan cheese. As a VN person, we salivate at the thought of a fried egg with runny yolk pouring ... no ... cascading down whatever carbohydrate that it gently perches above. Location wise, I pretty much hate going anywhere along the Montrose/Westheimer area cos parking is just ridic. I'm not going to valet, I think that whole idea is dumb and only resort to it if there is no other choice. So, street parking it is! Luckily, we were early enough that there was some avail. The restaurant itself is like most others around it, the whole old house conversion. Our server was really nice and knew her menu pretty good. She also didn't like being fotograf'd but I'm fast like cheetah. We decided we would share a few dishes: the truffle egg toast, a pizza and a pasta dish. All that for brekkie/brunch. We some bad girls. The truffle egg toast. I really thot it would be better and be out of this world. But it wasn't. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe it needed another fried egg? What I am sure of was that it was frackin' over-priced. At $12 bucks for such a small dish, I don't think I'll be having seconds thankyouverymuch. I guess the truffles made it expensive. It was good but not outstandingly terrific. We ordered the tallegio pizza (taleggio cheese, arugula, pears truffle oil) and the orecchiette (escarole pasta and sweet sausage) pasta. Pizza ok, pasta good. Oh yeah, the menu is so frackin' annoying. I hated the fact that we didn't know what anything on that menu was. Our server had to tell what each and every ingredient was. I bet the servers hate that too. Overall? Prolly won't come back. I'm not a foodie by any means and don't find eating this type of stuff so scintillating and buddingly orgasmic. It's mos def not worth the price to me. I'd rather pay less for lower quality, yet tastier, food. Hah! I must sound completely uncultured right about now. You know what else I just remembered? Right before we ate all this stuff, we stopped by Empire Cafe to get us an iced milkway. It's oh so gut yet oh so bad for you. Well, we ran, we ate, we conquered (our bellies)!