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| - Overall I can only give this restaurant 3 stars because while I enjoyed most of my meal, there were just too many negative aspects to rank it much higher.
First, as others have mentioned the parking / location is really weird. To get there you have to go down a floor from street level, through halls of this ugly parking garage, then back up an escalator in this cheesy strip mall looking building. Not a good first impression. Then when you get to the restaurant, the ambiance is really odd - there are these beautiful big bay windows, but they look out at a street. Also the kitchen is open, but not in a good way where you could/should look in and enjoy the cooking but instead of a noisy industrial kitchen... very strange.
Second, the meal is incredibly pricey, which I don't mind if the meal is worth it, but I was somewhat disappointed. The scallops were mind bogglingly delightful (a must try), which started the meal off beautifully, but it really went down from there. The apple salad and the meat/cheese plate were ok, but nothing to write home about. The main dish of veal cheek was downright disappointing, esp. at $26 for the plate. The "veal cheek" tasted like cheap beef stew meat, the celery root was bitter and thus ruined the little bit of gusto the plate had going for it. Very frustrating - made me glad I had the Groupon so at least that plate was essentially free.
Long story short, I'd go back possibly for lunch to get the scallops and possibly try the pumpkin soup, but I'd save my "fancy dinner" budget for somewhere with better food.
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