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| - This is not the easiest restaurant for me to rate as I have such mixed feelings about my dining experience. First off in terms of service, ambiance, creativity and novelty, I give this place the highest of marks.
Let us get to the food though and this is where things got awfully conflicting for me. With almost all restaurants that experiment, there is always a risk that you might have a few misses along with hopefully many hits. That is understandable but those misses hurt that much more when you are paying a few hundred dollars for two (my wife joined me on this culinary adventure).
Now mind you I am very new to yelp and I am digging into the recesses of my mind to recall my meal here from some time ago. However, that does demonstrate that these dishes were quite memorable to me.
First, I would almost go back simply for a cube of rice that tasted like it must have been dipped in ambrosia (likely pork fat, so pretty close). By contrast, I had one of my least favourite dishes of food of the last few years here as well. That being what the chef referred to as lamb chow-chow. Think lamb tartare. On second thought, if your tastes are anything like mine, probably best not to.
The rest of the meal was above average from the mains of seafood and protein to the dessert, so all in all, it was a good meal.
If you are going to take anything from this review, be it this: It's a nice expensive restaurant that serves a lot of foods in many different preparations. You are bound to try something you love but if there are any foods you do not like, do not be shocked to get it here either. For me it was raw lamb and a dish that used a lot of celery. Would I eat such dishes again to get to the aforementioned cube of rice? Sadly, that is a question I continue to ask myself.
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