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| - Eleven tries really hard, but ultimately very little that I ate there succeeded. The menu and ingredients look exciting, but the person preparing the food and creating the recipes doesn't seem to have a chefs idea of what goes together well/how it should be cooked and seasoned. I've never written a dish-by-dish break down of my meal before, but I feel like like Eleven warrants one, so here goes:
First, someone comes around with a bread basket. This bread basket turned out to be the highlight of the meal, and there was a cherry poppyseed bread that was excellent. After this, we started with the tuna tartar, which was also good - however, there was a raw oyster, out of its shell, on top of it, which was a sign of the weird choices to come. What were we supposed to do with this oyster? You're not going to chew it with the tartar, but slurping a dry, raw oyster from a fork instead of a shell also seems strange. I love raw oysters, and really all raw seafood, but one just lying over tartar is kind of unappetizing. I also got a kale Caesar, which had really good dressing, but too much of it, WAY too much Parmesan, and an insane amount of pepper - again, good ingredients, but not quite right.
Then came the entrees. The entrees are where this slips into a two star review. The entrees took beautiful ingredients and made them tasteless, which makes me sad. I had pasta with shrimp and uni - I think uni is the most magical thing in the world, and it needs to be treated very, very lightly. I couldn't even taste this uni, at all, because it was drowned in butter. The sauce for the dish, from what I could tell, was simply a stick of butter, Paula Dean style. It was bad.
My boyfriend got the grilled swordfish, which, again, had great ingredients - but when you see fish with chorizo on a menu, you kind of assume it will be lightly sprinkled with chorizo, not served atop a sausage cake almost as big as the fish. The fish was flavorless and cooked to death, but it wouldn't have mattered if it wasn't, because the chorizo cake totally overpowered it. The shellfish with this dish were tough.
All in all, the menu reads like someplace really exciting, but the people in the kitchen just don't seem to get how to meld flavors together, and every dish just seems like a waste of beautiful ingredients. The meal actually made me a bit depressed - definitely disappointing.
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