The major advantage of this place is that it is open late at night located in the Renaissance hotel. Also I would give three $$$. Now my review.
Service: Started out bad but after I hinted to my waiter/bartender that he was taking too long and nowhere to be found, never gave water, or table settings until after food came out, and food came out way before drink he improved.
Food:
I really liked my cocktail which I think was the highlight of the meal the el pepino.
The bbq pulled pork was also tasty fresh and juicy and had enough acid and the bread was crispy and fresh and nicely toasted. Downfall is that it never came with a side of sweet potato fries which you had to pay $5 extra since I just like a few fries I never ordered a whole side.
The dessert was a different story if it is not edible do not put it on a plate. I was going to get the lemon meyer trifle but my waiter warned me that the sponge cake you would normally expect on a trifle was instead a biscuit topping so I chose the lime avocado cheesecake with pistachio crust and raspberry coulis. What I got was an inedible disaster. I was hoping for a light and fluffy cheesecake and what I got was something very very very dense that felt like you were eating butter. No really it had no taste so it was like eating a whole stick of butter. The crust also was graham cracker with no taste of pistachio. Finally to add insult to injury the chef placed a very bitter raspberry sauce on top. Which was so bitter it was inedible. It seemed like it was a new chef trying to0 hard to be creative that he completely forgot about making something tasty which is a shame because dessert is my favorite course. I really forced myself to take a second bite but that was extremely painful. In the end the waiter saw I did not like the dessert and he took it off the receipt. After the dessert fiasco all I wanted was something normal and familiar like carrot cake or plain light and fluffy new york style cheesecake or a warm brownie with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream or tiramasu unfortunately these were not on the menu.
In the end the whole meal was hit or miss but give the severity of the misses I had to give the place two stars. One more note is that the atmosphere is really nice and trendy but with that said some of the seats are not comfortable and I had to move to three different seats to find something comfortable which goes along with the theme hit or miss.