Don t worry, you aren t alone. The Home Place is a new restaurant that opened up this summer in Aberdeen. It is located directly behind or to the west of The Flame. The first thing that you notice about the Home Place, besides the trees outside with decorative Christmas lights on them, is the fact there is very little parking for the restaurant. When I finally got inside the restaurant, I felt the atmosphere was something in between fine dining and a cafe setting.
Booths line the walls with tables set out in the middle of thin but wide room.
The bright lighting doesn t lend itself to romantic dining, but overall, the decor was nice but nothing really too special. Our server immediately came to us and offered us drinks and gave us our menus which were basically printed out sheets of paper. My first response to the menu could be considered sticker shock. The next thing that struck me as odd was that there were only seven main entrees to choose from, but I was later told that the list of dishes changes from week to week so there is ample variety. Along with the main dish comes a mixed greens with honey shallot vinaigrette and I also chose an accompaniment of sauteed fresh asparagus and baby carrots.