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| - My experience at the Roaring Fork during Restaurant Week was peculiar. It's difficult for me not to take on the judgements of my co-diners, but I'm going to try to limit this to my experience only.
It took FOREVER to get order our drinks and actually receive them. All I wanted was an iced tea and I received my drink last, and it was given to my co-diner seated 4 seats away from me. And, while we were waiting for our drinks to arrive incredibly slowly and one-by-one, I started to get really, really hungry. I'm waiting for the guy to take our order, but he hasn't even brought all the drinks yet, but he has brought a huge basket of bread. So I start munching on bread, which was so-so.
Finally, he takes our orders for appetizer and entree. And it takes forever for something of which they probably have a big vat sitting in the kitchen. But it eventually comes out: 7 green pork chili and a tortilla soup. Except wait a minute, they only brought out 6 green pork chili and a tortilla soup. So again I wait, and wait, for my waiter to come check on us. 10 minutes or longer after everyone else is served I finally get my appetizer.
And it was really good. Tender pieces of pork in a slightly spicy green chili sauce, smothered with a ton of jalapeno jack cheese, served in a little cauldron with three large buttery tortillas. But it was enough food to be the entree. If I had known it was going to be this large, I would have ordered the salad.
Then it takes awhile for everyone to finish, plates to be cleared and entrees to be brought out. We were seated at 7:30, it's now close to 9.
But then it finally arrives. My rainbow trout with almond slices and capers with a piece of jalapeno cornbread. The fish was almost as large as the platter, easily 4 servings if vegetables were included on the platter, but there wasn't. I'm very curious to find out if this is how they normally serve their food because I'm not used to getting a big plate of meat with nothing else. Again, it was delicious. Lightly battered and smokey, it almost tasted meaty it was so rich. This fish was yummerriffic.
Then it's time for the dessert, not that any of us have room for dessert, but it's part of the package. The server informs us that there are only 3 creme brulee left. Luckily only two of our crowd wanted this dessert, but it was just another way that I was a little disappointed with the service. I ordered the Chocolate Lava Brownie with Vanilla Ice Cream. It was pretty good. Not phenomenal, but good.
I loved my food, and maybe I would check out a happy hour. It's a shame that the service was so mediocre, because this restaurant could easily have won me over with their food. And I never would have gone here if it wasn't Restaurant Week.
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