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| - I guess I will be the voice of dissension in the following review, but to be honest my experience this evening wasn't anything to write home about. Frankly it was quite forgettable.
To set the stage, it's Restaurant Week winter 2013 and I've heard some good things about 5Church and as part of the purpose of this event, this was a great opportunity to try a new place without breaking the bank. I went ahead and made reservations for 6:00. I got the impression that our babysitters were going to be a bit late and I called 5Church around 12:30pm and asked to move out our reservation time by about 30 minutes. I couldn't hear the Hostess on the other end and she couldn't hear me because of the ridiculously loud blaring music behind her. I got the "lazy" answer of that they were packed to the gills and there was no room for me to push out the time. Fine, it worked out and we got there 5 minutes prior to 6:00. When we got there the 3 hostesses were pretty snotty and couldn't be bothered and asked us to wait at the bar which was fine, but I walked past a nearly empty dining room to get the the bar. I never get the whole overstaffing of hosts / hostesses thing. Also, these people are the first impression you get when you walk in and to have them not be welcoming and efficient is a bad start to the experience.
At 6:20 we finally got seated only when I went and bothered the ladies at the hostess stand again, saying we were ready to be seated. We walked upstairs and we were seated right next to the kitchen (Awesome right?). They had these slim swinging doors which were constantly being kicked open and swinging loudly revealing the mishmosh of the kitchen. It wasn't going to work for me and I asked to be reseated. We were sat on the other side of the upstairs bar right under a speaker blaring music and I realized this was where the hostess that I spoke to earlier must have been standing when she took my call because I couldn't hear myself think let alone carry on my usual pleasant conversation with Sweetie. Great, I should have packed my earplugs.
OK, onto the food. I decided to forego the Restaurant Week Menu and ordered the Crispy Pork Belly and 60 Second NY Strip and Lobster Mac & Cheese. The crispy pork belly app was tasty, I must say. Crispy and well plated, it made for a nice culmination of flavors and it made things started turn around for me. If I couldn't hear Sweetie because of the music at least I can enjoy the food. The 60 second steak is awesome. It is made in a cast iron skillet and never flipped but cooked through so that one side is cooked more but the other side is perfectly rare and cooked to temperature. It was plated with a nice signature sauce by their chef which was both tangy and smokey....nicely done, it was the perfect compliment to the steak. The lobster mac and cheese was disappointing and was just a saucer of mac and cheese completely void of lobster. For $9.00 I expected more and it was a bit insulting to not have any more than a morsel of lobster. I suggest they take a short walk to the Capital Grille to learn how that dish should be prepared.
Sweetie had the wasabi encrusted salmon, which was bland and forgettable. She expected to taste wasabi and got nothing. Not much else to say.
Service was half and half, the waitress popped in at the right times for the most part but after dropping off the dessert menu we didn't see her for 20 minutes which was annoying since we were ready to go. Sweetie went to the restroom came back reporting that there wasn't any soap in the dispenser which always makes you wonder how the servers are able to wash their hands.
All in all, my food was OK nothing spectacular and I don't think I'll be back.
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