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After being open for a couple of months, I’ve finally made it to BoHo, the Spacecraft-designed and Adolfo Suaya-owned restaurant that’s “a little bohemian, a little Hollywood.” Since it’s usually packed on weekend nights, I was a little surprised that it seemed kind of slow last night, but I guess you can’t expect too much on a Monday night. Anyway, on to the food.

The good: My table, which included e*starla, enjoyed all of the food we ordered. I had the potato pizza, which included fingerling potatoes, spinach, roasted garlic, mozzarella, ricotta and grated reggiano. We also had the Pile o’ Ribs, the meat of which was tender and fell off the bone easily. The fries were decent. And we had an order of the beef shortribs, which were braised in Rogue chocolate stout and guajillo chiles and came with spaetzle. That might have been my favorite dish, actually. We were impressed by the list of 25 microbrews, and I had a Raspberry Sunset cocktail made with framboise lambic beer, lemonade and muddled mint. It was good, even if there wasn’t much alcohol in it. That’s probably why it was only $4. The waitstaff was friendly, helpful and knowledgeable.

The bad: Not too much here, though I wasn’t completely satisfied with the crust on my pizza. I like a doughy crust, or at least one with some bite, and BoHo’s was practically hollow. It didn’t taste bad; it just didn’t have to texture I prefer. Also, the restaurant space was a little drafty, probably due to the high ceilings and the open front door. But I got over that pretty quickly.

All in all, BoHo offers good value. With the exception of two dishes (peppersteak is $24 and beef shortribs are $21), nothing on the menu breaks $20. The portions are large, too. That’s why we didn’t have dessert, though the zeppolis (Italian doughnuts) caught my eye. I’ll try those next time with the 10% off coupon the restaurant gave us with our check.

Potato pizza

Beef shortribs

Pile o' Ribs