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| - Yet another restaurant that was highly reviewed by Helen Schwab and ended up a disappointment.
On the day we visited, I started with the chef's featured soup, what was described as a tomato bisque. What I was served was an ice cold bowl of what seemed to be a blend of canned tomato paste and canned tomato sauce. I don't normally expect tomato bisque to be served ice box cold, but the surprise didn't end there -- the "chef's inspiration for the day" (as the soup is described on the menu) was apparently to dump tomato sauce into a bowl, add no spices, salt or flavoring of any kind and have it delivered to the table.
My wife ordered the seafood risotto which comes with a salad. However, she wanted to substitute the beet salad for the house salad. This was apparently too much for our waitress to process.
Waitress: "now you know the risotto comes with a house salad, right?"
Wife: "yes, but I would like the beet salad instead"
Waitress: "but it comes with a house salad. I'll have to charge you more"
Wife: "I assumed that -- I want a beet salad."
Waitress: "OK. Now, what kind of dressing do you want on your house salad"
Wife (stabbing her own hand with a fork): "I don't want two salads, I'd just like the beet salad."
That was harder work than we expected at lunch.
I had the fennel sausage pasta for my entree -- it was fun to try to find the sausage in the dish. It had to be hiding in there somewhere...
In retrospect, we should have left after they served the soup. I can't recommend this place.
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