Maybe this place was great back in the day. I've heard some friends talk about it and say it is hard to get a table for summer/winterlicious.
Pros: Intimate setting and decor. Acoustics are comfortable and the place was not loud. Good service, friendly. I liked the lemon icecream dessert mixed with basil and tasted my friend's short cake mixed with a herb and my other friend's chocolate tart - good.
Cons: The meal itself. I found the shaved asparagus salad to be quite bitter, it had a mix of flavors but nothing fully satisfying. The Cod main meal - my friend had the same meal and she was also not pleased. She finished it though so that says something. I did not - that says something also. I found there to be too much polenta (too much of something is a bad thing?- well when it doesnt taste like much and feels more to be as filler than adding flavor - or maybe it was to offset the fish) The fish was pretty darned salty. I should have said something but it was as the border of too salty and salty. I was hoping it would improve as I got through it. Nope. Then it was mixed with the bitter greens. For me, this was such a disappointment since I had the salad and was not impressed but to have the main be bad too? I sat there thinking, if this were not summerlicious my dish would be so pricey. How awful to have the taste sub par but also the price putting a really useless dent in my wallet.
I was told lately and have heard before that places are tending to give their sub par dishes for summerlicious because they are getting a lower price for it all. I do not think that this is what Bymark did, but I am left puzzled as to my friend's reviews of it all.
When your meal is putting a dent in your wallet and/or a halt on your fitness regime - it had better be well worth it! Well at Least I tried this place.