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| - I had built up some high expectations from things I had heard from friends and coworkers and folks I knew who worked there. So perhaps I just expected too much.
Which is not to say anything was BAD. Certainly not. Everything was perfectly acceptable, if a little overpriced for the level of enjoyment of food / quantities.
The menu is small and somewhat lacking in descriptors, and our waitress (who was friendly, smiled, knew her business, attentive but not overbearing) apologized that some of the descriptors were actually incorrect when we asked about them. (Wrong type of nut listed, wrong vegetable ingredient, etc.) They had also made some subsitutions in some of the things we ordered, and did not tell us (or the staff apparently) about these changes until we pointed out that what we had did not match the menu.
The bison tartare had a lovely texture and I was really excited about it, but turned out to have almost no flavor at all. The greens and oil that accompanied it were all that could be tasted, though the combo of textures was very pleasing. I tried some of the paper-thin bison (which had to be carefully and painstakingly scraped of the plate with a fork or knife and spread onto a crostini) all by iteself, and still could only detect the lightest of beefy flavors. I can compliment it's subtlety, but I would have preferred to actually taste my food a bit more.
The pasta's we ordered (we passed them around a little) were fresh and properly cooked. Perfectly al dente. Several of the dishes were very good, most were just good. Nothing was so good that anyone said, "wow, you have to try this one."
The lamb dish contained almost no perceivable lamb. A nut-based pasta had several fried herb leaves that were far too large and overpowering to be eaten without singing the palate; other bits were pleasantly small,crisp notes in proper proportion. Notes of lemongrass served another dish very well,
The signature cocktails were tasty, if somewhat unspectacular. (A $15 cocktail turned out to occupy only half of a small champagne flute.) Nothing left me feeling scammed or unpleased, but nothing left me excited to tell people that I had finally gotten around to really trying the place out.
The atmosphere is pleasing though, the decor is 4 stars and a nice mix of upscale and accessibly trendy. (On a silly note, their bathrooms were quite lovely and originally decorated, not to mention spotless.)
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