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| - We were very lucky to call at 6:00 on a Friday night asking for a 7:30 reservation and we happened to get in.
The visit was much anticipated - we'd walked past the restaurant, located in the Eastside complex just off of Penn Circle, a number of times. We arrived on time and were seated promptly by a smiling hostess who led us through an extremely full dining room to our table. The table, which was uncomfortably close to two 4-tops at the back of the room, was nicely set and complimented the open, airy feeling of the rest of the space. I agree with the other poster who suggested that they could remove 30% of the tables from the dining room.
We had two servers taking care of us, which my date found to be a positive but I thought it only made the evening more confusing, with one server asking whether the other had already taken drink orders, collected our check, etc. Both servers were extremely personable, but one was much more confident and knowledgeable about the menu than the other, leading me to believe that consistency of service is a problem that they will have to iron out.
The drink menu was a bit confusing (cocktails are named by number, as in RC1, RC2, etc.) but each drink was well thought out. I could have ordered and been happy with more than half of the drinks on the menu, and with a price tag of only $9 each that may not be as prohibitive as it sounds.
The food was delicious.
We ordered two appetizers - shumai dumplings (steamed and filled with pork and shrimp, $8) and the tuna sashimi (which is the jellyfish dish - the cubes of tuna, which were delicious, sit on a bed of julienned veggies and marinated jellyfish, $12). Service confusion made it possible for us to try the crystal shrimp dumplings, which were delivered to our table though we did not order them. They were tasty, but the tuna was the star of that course.
Four our main courses, my date and I ordered the lamb chops and clay pot sea bass, respectively. Both dishes came out within minutes of our appetizers being cleared, so the kitchen obviously has their timing down to a science. The Elysian Fields lamb, which is from nearby Greene County, was absolute perfection. My fish was tasty, well seasoned, and cooked to perfection in its clay pot. I didn't realize that there was tofu in the dish, so I enthusiastically bit into what I thought was a small piece of fish to be startled by the tofu - not a problem since I like tofu, but it was unexpected as it was nowhere in the dish's description on the menu.
Our server coaxed us into buying dessert and we chose the white chocolate yuzu almond cake which was awesome. It came alongside a scoop of berry ice cream which was placed on a bed of blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries. My date literally scraped the dish clean.
In all, an wonderfully satisfying meal.
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