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| - Love the decor of this place, very chic and modern, cute little place for a date I would say. Service was excellent...until they got busy. We arrived around 6 and they only had 2 other tables and a few people at the bar. We seated immediately, our server got us water and took our drink orders immediately. He explained the menu and made recommendations, food came out pretty quickly and he came back to check-in our us regularly. Towards the end of our meal was then they got busy, the restaurant filled up and it was clear they were under-staffed. I asked for a soda re-filled and waited about 15 minutes until I got it, we just asked for the check and left. Even though service lacked a little towards the end I would say service was really good. The 3 start is for the food.
Presentation was excellent, very instagram worthy. I think they have unique ideas and concepts but lacked flavors in my opinion.
Oysters - We got them with the spicy cocktail sauce which I liked and the Thai chili granita which I did not care for. But my biggest issue with these oysters as that they were very warm, like a couple degrees above room temperature. I am not an oyster expert or anything but I have always had oysters cold...these were so warm they feel like eating cheap Chinese buffet oysters. That totally killed the dish for me.
Crisply Octopus - Love the idea of fried octopus and really liked the curry sauce that came with it but the octopus itself was too tough and hard to eat. It is very lightly breaded but too tough to eat, doesn't have have chewy sharpness that octopus usually has.
Bao Sliders - These were so cute to look at! The buns were fluffy and sweet, love the quail egg on top, but even with the pork sausages and the aioli it tasted very bland. The flavors did not pop at all, I tasted the slight sweetness of the buns and the slight saltiness of the sausages, no strong flavor to hold everything together.
Salmon Clay Pot - Extremely disappointed with this dish. Big and delicous piece of salmon...the only good thing about the dish. The eggplant and the farro were so bland..none of us liked this dish. If they had some sauces on top or on the side that would have helped. Salmon is bland on its own, the farro and eggplant added to the blandness.
Duroc Pork Belly and Slow Cooked Short Rib - These two dishes were delicious. The meats melts in your mouth, so soft and sweet. Strong flavors, love the sticky rice that came with the pork belly. Very impressed with these two.
So out of the 3 appetizers and 3 main dishes I only enjoyed the two main dishes. I think this place has potential, they have interesting ideas but I think they need to work on adding more flavors to their dishes. Most of the dishes were bland and just did not satisfy my appetite as much as I would have liked.
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