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| - I hate writing bad reviews, and believe me, I wanted to LOVE this place. I love its location (it's embedded in a little Point Breeze neighborhood), and generally feeling of the place. But it was bad from the beginning. Detals below, but overall summary: terrible food and management.
The chef and manager were unbelievably rude.
Ordering off the special menu, we each had an order of Beef Carpaccio. The plates and meat were so cold, we could barely pry the mear off the plate. No acid either. Terrible. Alerting our server, she kindly brought us new serving. They were mush and had obviously been just put under a warming lamp. They were awful. And no one asked if they should have been taken off the bill.
Second course. Duck breast for my friend was lovely. The Pasta I received was underdone; I've had better at chains.
Third course, a dessert--- disaster. I had an ice cream cake dish. I know it's supposed to be cold, but it was so frozen I couldn't cut it with a steak knife (perhaps with a machete?) My friend and I were very polite but did note the problems. The server took mine away and offered to take it off the bill. The manager and chef decided to discuss us at the bar within ear-shot. Seriously.
Nothing was comped, no effort to bring us back, nothing but dead faces from the manager and chef. I will never go back and am spreading the word. Let's hope a new restaurant moves into the lovely neighborhood space. After $150, I would hope for more. Terrible. DO NOT GO.
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