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| - I *used* to love the Marche. Really. From the Movenpick days - yeah, I've been going to this restaurant for 2 decades now.
When this became a "Marche" again, I was overjoyed - Richtree didn't quite cut it. In its new incarnation as the Marche a few years ago, the food was fresh, tasty, cooked just right, and really vibrant.
Since then, the quality has slowly been falling off.
This past week, I've been there twice - for dinner both times. Both times, the food has been abysmal. Last week, I had the salmon filet with rice - the salmon was overcooked, the rice was completely tasteless (they used to serve fried rice with the salmon, but I see there is now a separate Asian station that provides fried rice). And I had an avocado shake that tasted like flour - I'm suspecting one or more moldy avocados.
That day, my friend had a stirfry from the Asian station and wound up with mild food poisoning.
Tonight, i decided to try something different, maybe a little healthier (well, not really). So I got two pieces of "pie" - one each of the beef and the spinach/feta. And I got a medium salad which i assembled from a variety of pre-cooked veggies. This time, *I* got the food poisoning - my friends merely said their choices were bland.
You have lots of choices downtown - give Marche a miss and head over to the competition. Your stomach will thank you for it. If you DO go to Marche, I'd strongly recommend going at lunch time when the food hasn't had the chance to sit out all day and spoil.
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