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| - We went during restaurant week. It annoys me when restaurants use that as an excuse, but I think it's a fair disclosure in a review.
Food was worth at least 4.5 stars -- maybe 5. Our waitress was wonderful; she provided practical advice regarding food selections, even as we tried to figure out how to navigate the menu given the option of the restaurant week prix-fixe choices. We each had the kale salad, which had wonderful ingredients, though the creamy dressing took away from the natural tastes of the kale, pecans, and dried berries. I had a 12-ounce filet, which was quite well-prepared. I like steak cooked medium-well, which earns glares from foodies and so I often get a lower-quality barrel-cut filets (as I did on this night), but it was cooked perfectly and I didn't notice the extra fat or toughness that this cut sometimes has. My wife had the 6 oz filet from the prix-fixe menu. Horseradish mashed potatoes on her plate had a "seafood restaurant" kind of flavor, but she ate some of my baked potato, which was enormous and yet perfectly cooked, which is often hard with the largest potatoes.
Two stars because the front-of-house management was not good and left a bad taste in our mouths for the night overall. Valet service was required, though there was ample parking right in front of the restaurant (that had been blocked off for the valet service). That wouldn't have been awful (it is free) except that when we exited, there were seven or eight cars backed up waiting to be parked and one harried valet attendant running to and fro. He paid no attention to us or the four other groups waiting for their cars, so I went over and told him to give me my key and tell me where my car was. That worked out nicely, actually, because my car was pretty close. If you're not going to let me park my car, though, you'd better have the valet process down cold.
The hostess and seating attendant were young girls who seemed to think it was their job to protect the restaurant from people they deemed insufficiently cool. I didn't feel welcomed, and they were not prepared to seat us at our reservation time (they didn't apologize, but said, "you can wait in that corner" and pointed to the three square foot area next to the walkway to the bar. When the seating attendant took us to our table, she started clanking around the extra glasses and silverware (the table had been set for 4 rather than 2), though she left them all cluttered up there anyway, and didn't give us enough menus.
The restaurant is too crowded -- tables are squeezed together to maximize revenue, I suppose -- and was quite loud: so much so that my wife and I had trouble understanding each other across a corner booth table (we're in our thirties -- not hard of hearing or anything).
Quite good food, but Sullivan's is a "special event" kind of restaurant, and there are places in town that create a special night out kind of experience, so I wouldn't go back to Sullivan's.
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