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I have not been a regular visitor of Wildfire for some time. My latest visit was in late September 2015 for a casual sponsored dinner function in spite of timing of this post. This review therefore may be positively biased. Overall I'd give it 3.5/5.
Preamble: location is decent but parking was atrocious (you wouldn't want to be lured into a law firm's innocent but exclusive parking lot would you?) Ambience is a casual yet upscale one, sophisticated yet mundane. Service is also more than attentive and sincere.
Back on topic though: I had the Romaine Salad - hearts of romaine tossed in a red wine vinaigrette, with peppers, olives, and feta cheese. For main course I had the New York Striploin - with garlic mashed Yukon gold potatoes and seasonal vegetables. I dissented from what others recommended on the group menu - the Churrasco Mixed Grille - back ribs and piri piri chicken, garlic mashed Yukon gold potatoes, seasonal vegetables (not pictured). And for dessert I had decadent chocolate torte - house made flourless Belgian chocolate torte - desserts which I took home as usual.
Shared appetizer was satisfying. Based on other reviews understood this was a mass production one but I think Wildfire pulled it off decently. I thought the cucumber with smoked salmon mousse was also well executed contrary to what others thought. Salads are just salads and can't make too much of it. It's still decently fresh, not sure why it was so moist and soggy (?frozen ?washed too much) but it was still presented with sort of a bibimbap latitude that allows individual autonomy (olives concentrated bottom right, for example, and which I like btw).
But...here's my beef ahem - it was disappointing for a self-styled steakhouse. Though a notch higher than my latest travails with David Duncan House a few blocks nearby it just was just not ... inspiring. The steak certainly wasn't criminal - but certainly not memorable either, and I am glad I was not one footing the bill. (Maybe it was another mass production) It does not make much sense when a random piece of beef from a fast-food court stir fry could be just as good - if not even better - when I already preferred it to be medium rare or even medium in the first place!
Not being a dessert person, I did take the chocolate torte home and family loved it. That was a plus.
Overall competent. You won't be disappointed of, for lack of a better term, an "upper middle class" excursion. Unless you're gaming for the main course.
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