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| - Decided to come here tonight with my dad after a long and chilly day at the Cleveland Air Show. Glad we called ahead for reservations because it was down to two choice, 5:45 or wait until 9 to get a seating for dinner! So, lesson be learned, make reservations early if you want a prime dining time....
Now, unless you want to pay for valet parking, also leave yourself an extra 10-15 min to find parking in Tremont, granted, the Polish festival was also on this evening, but the parking situation in this neighborhood is frequently difficult.
Arrived a few minutes ahead of our reservation and were seated immediately, the hostess walked us to our table and there was a huge chunk of broken wine glass (about 1/3 of the glass, pretty hard to miss) sitting right under the bench I was to sit on. I pointed it out to the hostess and she apologized while clearing it out of the way, no big deal, but a little strange for such a nice place.
Waited....and waited....uh, ok, anytime now. Seriously, our waiter was taking care of 3 tables (including ours) and it took him almost 10 min to come by and see what we wanted to drink. And then when we ordered tea, he didn't even ask us if we wanted milk and sugar, took almost another 10 min to get those out to the table. Fail number two...
The menu looked intriguing, and even though I didn't have the best meal of my life here, it was good enough that I will come back again to try other dishes. I started with the roasted beet salad....not bad, lacking in flavor a little, but that may be because I am used to eating pickled beets instead....however, a little seasoning couldn't hurt on these.
I got the pork chop and my dad went with the mac and cheese. The portions were huge, neither of us could finish our meals. The mac and cheese was nice, but super rich, so rich that the Clinic's Heart institute should sponsor this place, 10% off your first bypass surgery once you've eaten 10 mac and cheeses from Lolita's! The pork chop itself was really nice, and I loved the greens that they had on top of it, very flavorful. The polenta that the chop was sitting on was once again too cheesy....I could barely taste any corn. I'm a cheese lover, but damn, Mr. Symon, I like to taste the thing I ordered as well.
Waiter talked me into the Brussels Sprouts, meh....could take 'em or leave 'em, nothing amazing.
Now, I also like to give places like this chances to astound me for dessert as well. Ordered the chocolate pot de creme because I had seen it in so many reviews....well, Mr. Symon needs to overhaul his thinking about what great chocolate tastes like. The combination mixture on the top with creme, caramel and sea salt tasted ok, but once all of that was gone, you were left with a very rich, but bitter tasting chocolate, nothing spectacular as a stand alone.
The party at the table next to us got the bone marrow appetizer, have had this back home on a few reservations and was a little disappointed to find out that they didn't use wild game.....yeah, it's just regular beef marrow. C'mon, I'm sure you could get in moose, buffalo, elk, something other than just cattle....but I will try it next time.
For this price, you only get one more chance to impress Mr. Symon....
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