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| - blah. my overall feeling after dining here for my birthday dinner last week.
Maybe it was because I heard such good reviews of the place, maybe it was because I had pretty high expectations, and maybe because it was a celebration dinner, but I left the restaurant that night feeling very underwhelmed.
Booked a table for 2 Sunday evening (mentioned in the booking it as for a bday). When we arrived the place was empty minus another couple. We were seated in a corner near a window with a huge draft. In an almost empty restaurant it would have been nice it they placed us in a more cozy area.
Server was meh. Not rude, but didn't seem excited to be there or go out of her way to offer us any suggestions.
I wanted to order some of the dishes I had seen posted on yelp (smoked spaghetti was calling me!) but the menu changed and we had to wing it. We worked with what we had (tbh the current menu is pretty unexciting) and without the help of our unhelpful server, we decided on:
Complimentary - house made bread and olive oil. Both were to die for. Both were the best part of our meal.
Starter - mushroom bruschetta. Essentially a pile of meaty mushrooms on a thin slice of toasted bread, smeared with a very mild ricotta cheese. It was very good, but really it was just a plate of mushrooms.
Pasta - spaghetti with sheeps milk cheese and pepper. The portion small, the pepper super overpowering, and the dish incredibly salty. We were chugging water for the rest of the night. The taste was so overbearing and salty and peppery that we could barely finish the tiny portion.
Whole rainbow trout - fish was super tender, but thats about it. Very very tasteless fish, and since the fish is so mild they could have added some other tastes to the dish. But it doesn't come with sides, so it was just a big slab of tasteless (albeit very moist) fish.
Overall nothing special and definitely not the best choice for a special occasion meal. It says something when the free bread is the best part of the meal.
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