Blue Dome Diner by night: Haute Cuisine on the Cheap

Fine, hearty yet elegant dinner entrees for $10 less than you’d pay anywhere else, a great location with no competition… why is this place always empty? I wrote a great review of Blue Dome’s ambitious dinner menu a year ago. Click here to read it. That review is still valid and describes it as it is today.

But not as it was 6 months ago. I  went back a few months later to find that the menu had been scrapped. So I stayed away… for too long, as it happens. A review in Urban Tulsa alerted me to the fact that the dinner menu is back. I went last night. Place dead at prime time on a Saturday night. Two tables of diners eating hamburgers from the all-day diner menu. I chatted with the chef and friendly service people. Gave them something to do. And then my entree came. Ohhh I wish I had a picture, it was so pretty. So instead I’ll share this photo of the homey, cozy dining room.
 

 

Duck Breast with Hoisin sauce accented with pineapple and ginger ($16, most expensive thing on the menu). Oh the breast was meaty, juicy, wonderful, and the Hoisin sauce made it taste just like Peking duck. (If you order it be sure to specify how you want it cooked because, the chef has learned from his current clientele that he will get complaints unless he overcooks it. Sad. He was thrilled when I ordered it rare.) You also get two sides. I got mashed potatoes and black beans. Great sides, but eclipsed by the duck.

 

The menu changes whenever they feel like it (usually monthly I think). Current offerings include honey and nut crusted cod with strawberry glaze ($14) and Jamaican Jerk Scallops with red wine plum sauce ($9 for small portion). But if enough people don’t go on Wednesday through Saturday nights, soon there won’t be a dinner menu at all.