Dine LA at Akasha

I was planning on skipping out on Dine LA this time since I just bought the house and was trying to save some dough. But wonderful, generous Kirk was so nice to surprise me with reservations at Akasha. We had actually gone to dine la here last year and loved it. The restaurant is a very farmers market fresh type of place with lots of organic and free trade this and that. For appetizers we had the pork sliders and grilled shrimp with ciabatta. The sliders were super moist but a little on the salty and very spicy side. The grilled shrimp was served on grilled ciabatta that was slightly burnt. For our main course I had the braised short ribs and Kirk had the albacore and quinoa. You can't go wrong with braised anything is my saying! It was super delicious and moist. The albacore was just alright...I really wasn't digging the quinoa (pronounced Kin-wa). For dessert, we had the banana split cake and smores pudding. They were just alright. For some reason, I was not quite as impressed as I had been in the past with Akasha. I don't think it was quite a representation of what they are capable of.