Bac Asian American Bistro & Bar

A few weeks ago my fellow foodie Hannah Williams who joined me for the food crawl, Stef Poduska and I, decided to ty Bac restaurant in Treamont.  Again, we were lucky to have perfect Cleveland weather and sat in their outdoor patio located on the street.  We examined the menu discussing all the choices that sounded appealing and all the different courses we were planning on having.  After debating where to start, we noticed that they offered a family meal option. To order the famliy meal option you needed to have a minimum of three people, which we had, and be interested in one of the 3 or 4 options in each of the 3 courses, which we totally agreed on!

       We started with a shredded pappaya salad with cilantro and peanuts in a garlic sauce

Before our next course included in our family meal we ordered a few extras. There was so much on the menu that looked good it was hard to only choose three things. 

Lemongrass crab cakes with a chili aioli and edamame

The crab cakes were very fishy, they were good but too heavy for my prefence on crab cakes.  The eadamame was of course a perfect side, fresh and light.

As another part of our family meal we each got a spring roll.  The girls were so nice to get meat free options for the bulk of the meal but were able to choose spring rolls with meat for themselfs.  As it turned out though, they enjoyed my meatless ones better.

Next we had a Tom Yum soup, made with lime broth with shrimp and mushrooms.  This soup was pretty great, especially since for a Vegetarian there are not many soups I can eat because so many people use chicken or beef broth.  The lime broth made it fresh and the shrimp and mushrooms are my fav so it just all worked.  The only negative about this dish was how very spicy it was.  Hannah enjoyed it, but I could only eat about half till I was sweating.   

Our main courses were (on the left) cold noodles with sprouts, carrots, peanuts, and topped with the vegi spring rolls, served with this garlic dip, which we had earlier with our pappaya salad.  This garlic sauce, or dressing whatever you want to call it was good on anything.  We also had avacado green cury.  It was spicy but creamy with the fresh avacado.  Both were very tasty!

Lastly, and for me, favorite part, we ended with an amazing selction of desserts that pleased us all.  In the front, I had the curry brownie and ice cream. This was fantastic.  I love desserts that think outside of the box and use ingredients you would not think make sense.  It was cooked perfectly and you could just taste the curry enough to give it a unique bite.  To the right Stef had the fried ice cream which was also perfect.  The hard, hot outter shell and the creamy ice cream inside.  I could live off of fried ice cream.  And then up top, Hannah had the green tea ice cream.  This was a very sweet and fresh take on typical ice cream.  It tasted just like drinking a tall glass of ice cold green tea.

The desserts were all above par, the meal was outstanding and gave us a chance to try all the things on the menu at a great price.  

If you ever considered trying this place grab 3 people and enjoy the family meal option and you will please everyone.  But, don't forget the dessert!