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| - There's so much good about this restaurant and in terms of quality of food you just can't more refined, more creative, and have more of a story than the stuff you eat here. The whole ingredient list authenticity thing is cool. The pine needle mussels dish seriously smells like you're in a forest (but then you're eating mussels, and you're like whoa, mussels in a forest whattt?, but then they taste so good and you squelch the geographic mysteries). The restaurant is beautiful, the servers are just so damn nice, and the whole place has this quaint, homey, warm little buzz going on. The food is also just so I exceptionally subtle. The dishes have parsley purees, peas, a mushroom salad that was just so tasty in its presentation of different subtleties of flavor between four or five different kinds of mushrooms in a pseudo salad. It's all there. But, I think you have to have a palate that is appreciative of subtlety. If you want volume, if you want bold flavors that kick your ass and then you add some extra hot sauce to it, if you like big quantities that make your burps have flavor two hours later ... This isn't totally your place. I think if there were maybe a few filler items as sides, something starchy, a rice accompaniment, or a portion of vegetables that were simple but filling, that would be the kind of thing that may appease people like me. It's so good though, and the chefs clearly have this culinary talent and vision they place in their dishes. Worth the reviews it gets but caters to a style of eaters that may not be me.
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