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My friend and I came here one night to find a nearly empty restaurant and a very attentive (and probably bored) server. Bread was surprisingly memorable - it was airy, buttery, and a little crispy like a croissant, but without being a croissant. Kind of reminiscent of a French baguette.
Our orders:
Appetizers: Carpaccio/Smoked salmon salad.
The carpaccio was very nice, and it came with some cheese that had some bite to it.
The smoked salmon salad was also good, but nothing special. As my friend put it, "it tasted like the ingredients" (imagine smoked salmon, red onion, capers and greens on a plate).
Mains: Veal in a creamy white wine mushroom sauce/Grilled market fish (Halibut)
My friend thoroughly enjoyed his veal, and he is a fairly knowledgeable carnivore so I would take his word on it.
The halibut was good, but again very conservative with creativity, and mostly good because they did not ruin the relatively high-quality ingredients.
Dessert: Tiramisu/Creme brulee
The game-changer. My friend was craving tiramisu like mad, and so he got that while I opted for the creme brulee.
The tiramisu was very well-made ("real" tiramisu, insisted my friend), but the creme brulee blew both of us away. It was the best creme brulee I've had in my life - in fact, even my tiramisu-happy friend ended up preferring the creme brulee, and ate a regrettably substantial amount of it.
Generally, the food here was fairly safe but of good quality. If you don't mind blowing a fair amount for a meal that is what it's supposed to be (nothing more, nothing less), this is a nice place for that. What brought the rating from a 3.5 star to a definite 4-4.5 star was dessert. If you come here and fail to get dessert, you will have missed the best part.
I will be back when I wish to relive the best creme brulee I've ever tasted.
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