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| - Disappointed sums up my experience at Stoke tonight. My boyfriend and I came here for dinner for a romantic night out and for him to try their signature dessert- the 1lb dessert donut. My boyfriend got their Sticky Pork Shank and a side of sweet potato pave. I got a regular mojito, a small farmers salad, and a bowl of their cauliflower curry. The food was beautifully presented, but unfortunately it was lacking in flavor. My mojito tasted kind of off and it had a lot of alcohol in in, I ignored the off flavor because I thought maybe it was just all the alcohol. My salad was pretty good but it was small and very basic, I didn't think it was worth $9. The cauliflower curry soup was $6 and it had way too much curry in it which was very off putting. My boyfriend's pork was extremely tender but it wasn't very flavorful and the sauce that came with it was very salty and had an odd flavor. It was a large portion of meat, but for $24 I expected something more than just a hunk of meat on a plate. The one redeeming quality of the meal was his sweet potato pave ($8)- this was delicious. The texture was a little weird at first because the potatoes were kind of hard, but I assume that they cooked it that way to hold the shape of the dish. I personally was dissatisfied with the donut which was topped with a mixture of pastry cream and whipped cream and Heath bar. This was $18 and I felt like it definitely wasn't worth that much. I could understand that price if they brought it out with a homemade chocolate sauce or topped it with homemade toffee, but they literally just topped it with crushed up heath bar. The middle of the donut was raw and the cream on top just tasted like whipped cream. Overall, the whole dessert tasted like something I would get at the state fair, not a high end restaurant. When we got our bill, we realized that I was charged for and given a Moscow mule ($13) instead of a mojito when I brought this to the attention of our server, she apologized but didn't offer to correct the mistake. I enjoy going to nicer restaurants when they have good food, but this restaurant was a complete and utter waste of money.
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