It's a half a year later and thinking about this place still irks me.
Caught in one of the summer rainstorms a friend and I stumbled into the first dry, warm and food offering establishment we found. We dripped our way to the last table available and ordered a polenta appetizer and a nicoise salad for a main.
Service was friendly and prompt; the polenta was some of the best I've had. Seriously, unbelievable good and it wasn't just our extremely hungry stomachs speaking. We anxiously awaited our main -- the excitement increasing as we observed all the delicious food being served to other tables.
Ohhhh how the bar fell. Quickly and swiftly.
What we got was a unpalatable mess of greens, boiled eggs and an assortment of canned... everything. Canned tuna, canned beans, canned artichokes and heck even the potatoes shared the infused briny taste of its neighbours. Is it even possible to can potatoes?! We could barely get through a few bites of this banality before we just gave up leaving hungry, confused and disappointed. The remains of our salad were offered to us in doggy bags which were promptly discarded as we turned the corner.
This salad needs to be stricken from their menu or upgraded to meet the standards of their other offerings. I'm wavering on giving this place 2 stars since selecting from a menu shouldn't feel like a game of Russian roulette. Though because of the service and quality appetizer I'll up it to a 3. But they'll have to wait for another serendipitous rainstorm to lure me in again.