CHEF ALISAH'S RESTAURANT - TUCSON, AZ

A wonderful European and Bosnian restaurant. We haven't been here in a long time and i had forgotten how good the food is when i order their specialties and forget the chicken dishes which tend to be overcooked.

The color scheme is shades of purple and its very soothing. All tables in the restaurant  - no booths - and the Bosnian community of Tucson (didn't even know there was one!) frequent this place a lot. We had a great table in the corner.

Bill and i shared a wonderful cucumber and home-grown tomato salad with goat cheese or farmer's cheese and a little bit of onion. This was all drizzled with a slightly sweet-sour oil and vinegar dressing. Very tasty and I appreciated the tomatoes since they were not the hard red chemical balls sold in the grocery stores; they had real flavor.

We also shared 10 Bosnian sausages (the size of jimmy dean's pork sausages though i think these were beef)  which come on fantastic herbed bread and a sour cream dipping sauce and onions. The sausages are great; perfectly spiced and not fatty or greasy tasting. And our other entree was goulash; a huge platter of very tender and fall-apart meat in a spicy tomato based sauce accompanied by 2 mounds of buttery rice.

You also get a basket of their traditional bread which is ok but too dense for me.
Their prices are very reasonable for the quality of the food and the portion size.

The only slight annoyance to the dinner was the bored and oh-so-slow-moving high school aged waiter; i'm sure forced to wait tables when he's not in school. His level of interest or friendliness was below zero.