LOCATION: 145 CULVER RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14620
That's right! I finally made it to TRATA! Julia asked me to go out to dinner with her last night and it was beautiful. The architecture there is, of course, incredible and this place is 2 floors of beautiful decor and really cool rustic lighting fixtures with a great rooftop bar. On such a nice night, Julia definitely wanted to have dinner on the roof and I was in. The only thing is that TRATA has a great bar for people in their late 20s, early 30s. We definitely felt too young to be there and ever so slightly, underdressed.
This place is a little pricier but the menu is good. There were a few things on the large plates section that caught my eye but being outside, on a really warm day, I decided on a dinner salad instead. Keeping it cool and fresh. I ordered the grilled calamari salad which came out and was really good. It was a baby kale salad with grape tomatoes, mandarin oranges, cucumbers, marcona almonds, and asiago in a ginger-peach vinaigrette. The vinagrette-asiago combo was a great surprise with a sweet kick that matched the mandarin oranges very well. The ratio of veggies to calamari was great and the calamari itself was cooked well. Not too chewy and very fresh. It was perfect.
Of course dinner with Julia wouldn't be a really good time unless we were at least a little weird. And Julia always lives up to it. She looks at the menu and being the picky eater that she is decides the Salmon Salad looks great. If only it weren't made with salmon. Thats right. Julia orders the salmon salad. Without salmon. Instead she asks if she can switch it with chicken, and the waitress says of course, and Julia does her happy dance, and I'm cracking up. Dinner is good. We also have a fun time post dinner trying to figure out what kind of nuts were in my salad because the menu's are gone and we have no idea. We spend the next 15 minutes on our phones searching the all knowing google for tree nuts. Apparently they're marcona almonds. We're smart. Always a fun time with the two of us.