17 Madrona St, Mill Valley CA
(415) 383-4200
Last Visited: November 22, 2009
Food: 3 stars
Atmosphere: 2 to 3 stars
Service: 2 stars
Price: $$$
Parking: street parking
Hours: Sun-Wed 11am-9pm, Thurs 11am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm
Alison tried Small Shed Flatbreads about five years ago and recommended it to me. It's taken me some time to get to Mill Valley since I normally don't go to that area. At last, I've tried Small Shed Flatbreads, but don't have plans to go back soon.
I was heading north on Highway 101 and had tried to find my way there in the dark, but even after calling the restaurant with my location, it was at least four trips up and down the main drag in Mill Valley to find it. Mill Valley street signs are hard to see at night because they're small, but I was determined to complete my mission.
Their website and Alison's experience made the place sound quaint and charming. Small Shed serves organic vegetables and grains. Enter the building and it's rustic with a bar and stools adjacent to the kitchen.
Upon our arrival, we were seated at a table that turned out to be quite wobbly and annoying and despite the waitstaff noticing the issue, they seemed to ignore the problem.
We chose to start with some mac and cheese. Ever since going to Beecher's at Seattle's Pike's Market, I
've been craving good mac and cheese.
- Mac & Gru - Penne and gruyere cheese is served in a small dish and the cheese on top is cooked until a golden brown. This dish alone would get four stars for flavor and texture - the cheese was rich and creamy and if you like a little crunch on the top of your mac and cheese, you'll love the edges. It's a bit pricey for the portion, but worth trying. This dish alone rescured the food rating. $6.50
Atmosphere: 2 to 3 stars
Service: 2 stars
Price: $$$
Parking: street parking
Hours: Sun-Wed 11am-9pm, Thurs 11am-9:30pm, Fri-Sat 11am-10pm
Alison tried Small Shed Flatbreads about five years ago and recommended it to me. It's taken me some time to get to Mill Valley since I normally don't go to that area. At last, I've tried Small Shed Flatbreads, but don't have plans to go back soon.
I was heading north on Highway 101 and had tried to find my way there in the dark, but even after calling the restaurant with my location, it was at least four trips up and down the main drag in Mill Valley to find it. Mill Valley street signs are hard to see at night because they're small, but I was determined to complete my mission.
Their website and Alison's experience made the place sound quaint and charming. Small Shed serves organic vegetables and grains. Enter the building and it's rustic with a bar and stools adjacent to the kitchen.
Upon our arrival, we were seated at a table that turned out to be quite wobbly and annoying and despite the waitstaff noticing the issue, they seemed to ignore the problem.
We chose to start with some mac and cheese. Ever since going to Beecher's at Seattle's Pike's Market, I
've been craving good mac and cheese.- Mac & Gru - Penne and gruyere cheese is served in a small dish and the cheese on top is cooked until a golden brown. This dish alone would get four stars for flavor and texture - the cheese was rich and creamy and if you like a little crunch on the top of your mac and cheese, you'll love the edges. It's a bit pricey for the portion, but worth trying. This dish alone rescured the food rating. $6.50
- Shed Med Salad - Star Route Farms mixed greens and cherry tomatoes are served with aged balsamic vinaigrette. The portion of this salad was not worth the price considering the atmosphere. Although the salad was fresh and the flavors were nice (the photo makes it look larger than it was due to the zoom), there wasn't much of it and the two tomatoes you see were all the tomatoes present. It should have been a $5 salad. $7
- Slamb - This flatbread is made with a house made Moroccan style spicy lamb sausage with roasted eggplant, caramelized onion, feta, mozzarella, tomato sauce and herbs. It sounds delicious, and they delivered on the flavors, but the flatbread could have come a little hotter. It seemed to have lost a little flavor with its temperature between the time it came out of the oven and its arrival at our table. $13.50Service was a bit lacking throughout the evening. It took a long time for us to place our order and to receive the salad. When our salad arrived, we were given warm plates (yes, warm). And the mac and cheese followed soon after. New plates were not given to us for the pizza while other tables did receive plates (perhaps this was server-dependent). Friends of the three gals serving that night visited during their shift and that only seemed to make service even more lacking.
While I think a restaurant should make profit, considering the portion size, Small Shed charges more than what I feel is reasonable. They make a great mac and gru and have inventive flatbread flavors, but overall, there are other places that I would recommend first.
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