My biggest problem with my recent experience at Nine on Nine was the service. The host staff was very friendly and accomodating (we didn't have a reservation on a Friday night) but it took no fewer than fifteen minutes to get water and another ten to get a glass of wine.
The food was . . . interesting. I chose sweetbreads for my first course. The dish was served with "celery air" (I can't make this up), blue cheese, and tomato confit. Once I tasted it, I appreciated what the chef was doing - deconstructed buffalo wings. But the thing was, it tasted *exactly* like buffalo wings. Perhaps I'm missing the point of deconstructed food, but if I wanted wings, I would have gone to a place where I can get 25 of them for five bucks. For my second course, I had a wild boar bolognese, which was truly excellent, and I highly recommend it.