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| - It pains me to do this, and I may get flak for it. But I'm going three stars. Yelp is a weird place where a "high end" restaurant that doesn't produce ends up with three stars but a totally legit but still just pizza place can end up with five. I don't really get it, and maybe if we had half stars it would be better (Dish was definitely half way to four rather than straight up three). I guess it's what restauranteurs hate about Yelp and yet people who use Yelp begin to appreciate. At the end of the day, we're looking at averages over time. So here goes:
First off, I have really been looking forward to going here. After it being booked solid and risking a walk-in we decided to give it our best shot.
It's a cute little place, with a nice bar and two-tops in one room and more, larger tables in another. Even though we were walk-ins, they were able to find a two-top without too much trouble.
We had dirty martinis to start (good, not great) and began with the grilled octopus. This ended up being the best dish in my opinion. It lacked concept to me, the potatoes made no sense, but the protein was grilled perfectly and the arugula was a great accompaniment.
Our secondi was gnocchi with beef ragout, which was disappointingly under seasoned. First off the gnocchi, while perfect in texture were bland as heck. And then the beef sauce was as well. After heavily salting the sauce it was better but the gnocchi never recovered. Sad, because it could have been great!
Our main course was the seafood plate with saffron risotto. Some of the seafood components were good (the fish, scallops) while others were not (shrimp way overdone and calamari as well.) Worse yet, the risotto was decidedly underdone, a good two steps below al dente.
Sorry Dish, maybe it was a bad night, but it missed the mark by a wide margin based on the reputation. It'll be a while till it makes the rotation again, hopefully it can redeem itself!
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