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| - I'd expected so much! Maybe too much. Let's start with the cocktail. A riff on a Manhattan with kisses of St. Germain and Chambord sounded beautiful. Reality the Manhattan was overpowered by the sweet ingredients and lost its Manhattan-ness. Our waiter was kind enough to have it remade, which was an improvement, but still far too sweet instead balanced and subtle.
First courses couldn't have been better! The beef tartare with black garlic was perfection, as was the sweet corn soup with yogurt foam, lightly pickled shrimp and nasturtium petals. So good!
And then the second course. My selection, a maybe 2" flat disc of risotto rice, topped with a shaved matching disc of portobello mushroom, with a squirt parmesan cream on the side was delicious, but that was a course? My companion had a small raw, room temp piece of salmon with a dill cream that once tasted wasn't eaten. She's a sushi fan, so raw didn't freak her out it was the room temp that did.
Third course. We both had very small portions of sous vide chicken. It was unremarkable. Period.
Dessert? I ordered cheesecake. Adam, our very professional, quite knowledgeable waiter told me it would be unlike any cheesecake I'd ever had. He was right. It was gorgeous!
Sliced, fresh black cherries interspersed with beautiful cornflower blue borage flowers tiled the top of a lump of pudding-like, lemony "cheesecake" filing. As the saying goes, pretty is as pretty does. It didn't. The cherries were basically tasteless and the filling in the bottom disappointing. More pudding than cheesecake, it just didn't make the grade.
What's more, our Restaurant Week special menu meal (that totaled pennies shy of $85, and that didn't include the cocktails Adam took off our bill or his very generous, well deserved tip) lacked such substance, that we made dinner when we got home!
Let's see...how do I sum this up? Mathematically!
Category Rating
Atmosphere: 3
Service: 5
1st Course: 5
2nd Course: 3
3rd Course: 3
Dessert: 2
Cocktail: 2
Value: 2
TOTAL: 26
AVERAGE: 3.25
Rounding down, that's 3 stars. I expected better.
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