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| - I'm a fan of Chef Scott Conant on the Food Network. He constantly demonstrates that he knows his stuff...which is why we decided to try this place.
Conant does show that he can be a bit of a prick on Chopped, which may be why his waitstaff try too hard. Their trying too hard results in this place being frenetic and frenzied....to the point of overkill.
We had 5:00 reservations and showed up at 4:45. The hostess told us that we would be seated at 5:00. Wife decided to use the restroom, so I walked out with her, she did her thing, we walked back in at 4:55. Everybody else who had showed up early were now seated. Not a lot of people, but they sat us in almost in the center of the restaurant. We should have asked for a better table, but we had a direct view of the kitchen which was pretty cool.
The waitstaff are friendly...and, there are so many of them. We had our waiter, multiple servers, the guy who popped out with the pepper grinder a minute before we needed him...we asked him to come back, which he never did. Two random dudes, one with a sportscoat, jeans and tennies and another with a pompadour that would have made James Brown jealous.
We had someone stop by our table about every 4 or 5 minutes. Too many. Too much. Too often.
The food was GREAT. (I have to add that even with all of the staff, food took a while to get to us.)
Appetizers
Creamy Polenta. Seriously amazing
Classic Meatball - fair
Antipasto Salad - Awesome. Dressed perfectly
Dinner
Wife - Cedar Roasted Sea Bass. WIfe is still talking about this. That good.
Me - Tagliatelle. Some of the best Pasta I've ever had.
...and a couple glasses of wine. Their wine selection is top notch.
We'll be back...we'll wait for them to thin out the zoo first.
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