awesome pulled pork sliders ($13) from club meatballs. came by for dinner with X sometime ago. i've been there for lunch (had one of their sandwiches) but their dinner menu is different. 

we also had a main each ($19.50). i had a hard time deciding what i wanted- risotto or pappardelle? an abundance of choices confounds me. but in the end, X and i, after some discussion, decided to share our mains. so i settled for pappardelle with onion and red wine sauce, topped with wagyu beef and rosemary meatballs. X ordered the parmesan risotto with truffled mushroom sauce (which was what i wanted) and chicken and cumin meatballs.

so this was mine-

i liked how the pappardelle came al dente, but X didn't like it precisely for that reason. i probably shouldn't have chosen the onion and red wine sauce with it though- the sauce was good on its own (X really liked it) and with the meatballs but didn't really go with the pappardelle. the wagyu balls were sadly overcooked and on the tough side, though generously portioned. 

i infinitely preferred the risotto with truffled mushroom sauce. really good, and the rice was al dente too, exactly the way i like it. in fact, i think i'll come back for the risotto. i think i ended up eating more of X's than my own. 

X much preferred the sliders to the mains, though that might be because of her sudden thing for pulled pork. but i would come back for the sliders and the risotto. strange, because they're called club meatballs, i would've thought i would leave with a better impression of their meatballs. i didn't try X's chicken meatballs, but she didn't like it much because of the overpowering cumin. 

the food is generally good- enough for me to overlook their nonchalant service, i suppose. we were pretty much ignored except for when they were taking our orders, serving our food, and settling payment. will be back if i'm not starving- food took quite a while to come, though the place wasn't even close to full. 

club meatballs 

#01-35 20 cross street 

www.clubmeatballs.com