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| - Overall a pretty crappy dinner experience. Combination of poor service and bad food. The latter I will take some responsibility for because I ordered things I had never had, though I watch enough food network I felt I knew what to expect. The former is inexcusable at a place this high end.
Poor Service:
-We had a reservation and arrived about 15 minutes early. The hostess said we could wait at the bar. We accepted b/c we had planned to do that anyway. We sat at the bar for 45 minutes waiting. One of us finally went back up to the hostess(now 30mins after our reservation). Our table had been waiting for us but the hostess didn't come get us, even though we told her we would be waiting at the bar. No apology, no offer of reconciliation.
-Service was slow. LONG lags between visits from our server. Food took a long time to come out(this was at 9-10pm). Entrees were delivered while some were still eating salads... all minor things since we weren't in any hurry. But contributed to the overall bad service.
-Our server in particular was very thoughtless and inefficient. When he returned at the end of our entrees he asked if we were finished. I said that I had called it quits and didn't want to take the rest home. So he takes my plate. Then without out asking the 2 ladies I was with if they were done, he starts collecting their dishes and putting trash from the table on top of their half eaten meals!!! So we have to stop him and tell him that they want their leftovers boxed up. So he takes 1 person's dish to go box up. We wait quietly for 5-7 minutes for his return. NOW he asks the other person if they want a box too, takes the plate and we wait another 5 minutes. Seriously?! You couldn't take both at the same time. And he finally brings a dessert menu and we have to wait another 10 minutes for his return to order. For sake of length, this is just 1 example of the inefficiency and thoughtlessness that detracted from what should have been a pleasant dining experience.
Bad Food:
Again, this could be reworded to say "I didn't like the food I ordered" but oh well, it's my review.
-Appetizer: TERRINE DU CHEF Am I an experienced pate eater, absolutely not. But in my mind, pate is a smooth paste like consistency and that's what I expected. Instead i got a few slices of hard, dense, not flavorful meat concoction in loaf form.
The salads my friends got looked and tasted very good though.
-Entree: CASSOULET Have I ever had cassoulet before? No. But I've seen Anthony Bourdain make it on the Cleveland episode of No Reservations. I'm expecting a dish of white beans that have been stewed in a flavorful porridge with various types of meat. Is that what they serve? No. They ladle some not very tender beans in a not very flavorful sauce onto the dish. Then they place small portions of various meats(duck, lamb, sausage) on top. Everything was cooked separately and only came together for the final dish. Flavors had not mingled and melded together into a cohesive dish. Everything was on it's own and just tasted weird.
Admittedly, if I had ordered different dishes I would probably feel better about this place, but overall this visit was a FAIL.
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