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| - The food was okay, but Italian only in that there were 3 pasta and 2 risotto dishes on the menu... the ingredients in those dishes were, for the most part, not Italian... the fish weren't traditional Italian fish, and weren't prepared in a way that could be described in any sense as Italian... they serve steak frite, for crying out loud.... I ordered sea bass that was not sea bass, cooked a bit dry, in way too much butter, with an overwhelming champagne mignonette, served with bland overgrown green beans and sauteed fingerling potatoes that were overcooked. Dessert was an "apple crumble" that was actually a Dutch apple pie - and it was okay-not-great, and not even made in house. That's cheating.
Our server was either on his first night ever working in a restaurant, or lives in a halfway house. Every question we asked (7, about the dishes, the winelist, and the coffee) he said "I don't know, I'll have to ask the owner." The owner did know the answers.
The space was crowded on a night when most of the other restaurants we walked past were not even half-full. Maybe people are coming here for the cocktails (ours, made with brandy, apricot brandy, and egg, was interesting but overspiced with nutmeg). Don't come here looking for interesting or exciting or well-prepared food, and certainly don't come here for the service.
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