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| - The good: The food. Hot damn, these people make excellent food!
The bad: I'm getting old and it's starting to show.
The ugly: The music is terrible and I felt it attracted super loud people
In the L'Orignal's defense, we showed up a bit early for our reservation. It was not their fault that I had to fight my way past obscenely loud and drunk patrons down the stairs and into the coat area. We did, however, have to wait about five minutes, standing around with these super loud people who were talk/shouting to each other because there was no host person and we couldn't figure out who worked there.
When someone finally came by, they invited us to sit by the bar until our table became available. It was another lonely five minutes before someone came by to drop off a drink menu.
By the time our table was available, I was already pretty tired of all the loud patrons, the crappy music, and hoped that we would be seated by people who didn't feel the need to shout to their friends sitting across from them - we weren't that lucky :(
It was late and packed, so by this point, I just wanted to order, eat, and go. We decided to share our starter, the pork terrine (with pistachios and figs, red cabbage and daikon radish cole slaw) and get our own mains. The pork terrine and the slaw was fantastic! It calmed me down a bit and helped me regain some of the patience I had lost earlier.
Our mains came - I had the elk steak with mini bok choy on beans with some type of salsa with chorizo. It was incredibly delicious and soul-soothing. My dearest had the deer stew with veggies on mashed potatoes. He said that he enjoyed it.
Overall, the food was fantastic. I just wish we would have known to expect the overjoyously loud music and patrons.
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