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| - I pass BLVD everyday on 4th Street to get home, it is an enormous corner building, it looks stupendous from the outside, and it has dim lighting and literally has two flaming centerpieces outside. It is a place you want to keep at the back of your memory for a special occasion. I was so excited when a friend choose this place as her Bday bash of choice; I was going to yelp it all up.
My conclusion is this...what a disappointing dining and dancing location.
Entering the lavish interior is absolutely divine; it's like walking down the red carpet, the flaming entrances the huge glass doorways. Upon Entering the bar is set up as the center focal point and the tables cascade to the sides in rich textures, comfortable seating with throw pillows. The waitresses I found dressed tastefully but were a bit too standoffish and a little cold as servers.
I was extremely careful not to eat much during the day as I was expecting 5 star plates. What Blvd offers is simply small plates to share; most of the substantial stuff is not on the menu anymore; the lamb, the beef... so you are basically filling yourself up with light meals and alcohol.
I had a hummus, with focacio and lamb, I expect the lamb to be skewered, instead it was ground and not much of a serving, tons of hummus and bread though but eating that for a main course is just silly. My one friend had the chicken pizza and it wasn't anything to write home about, basically she said it was like they ordered out at Boston, it was sliced up and served on her plate. Another friend had some taste temptations thing, you can check it out in my photos, basically 8 servings on wonton spoons, and we thought it was a joke so we called it the anorexic dish. So basically my friend of course not in the least bit full ended up sharing mine. Presentation was okay but the food was so so and definitely not up to par with all the decoration hype.
Blvd menu could use some tweaking from the Hotel Arts Food group in the city to bring their menu items up to the standards it should be.
The DJ then came on and it was more lounge and trance, we were going to stay to dance but there just wasn't a groove happening.
My biggest disappointment was when the bill came, it automatically got tagged with a server fee, which I am assuming was the tip, I think around 12%. I really cannot tolerate this ... charging your cliental a mandatory gratuity as if we were somewhere like New York or Toronto. Get your menu updated so it is mouth watering, have things on it that are actually available and put a warmer smile on your service staff to deserve that gratuity.
Read the other reviews on this yelp list BLVD, you're looks just ain't enough I am afraid.
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