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| - Went here during restaurant week - 3 courses for $36. For that price, I would give this place 5 stars. As their usual price is significantly higher, I give this place 4 stars.
Lets start with the food - delicious, creative, unique. The big theme I noted is that cooking is done via sous vide, enabling them to achieve unique textures you may not have tried before. One of the courses that night involved a sous vide egg yolk, which had a texture much like butter. The salmon was very moist and flaky - a beautiful medium rare. While I appreciate a restaurant which goes through the time and effort to do this, it's really not that hard to do on your own either. Also, it's delicious.
They also like to bring sauces and pour them on your dish tableside. These sauces show the restaurants originality - my favorite being the shellfish sauce, which was paired with a pork loin. It was creamy and very fishy - and that worked fantastically well with my sous vide pork.
Oh, and before I forget, the beef tartar was probably the best I've ever had. If it's on the menu, don't miss it!
Service was decent - they only had 2 servers for the restaurant that night, and given the intensive level of service required for this restaurant (changing silverware between courses, explaining each dish as it is served, etc.) it was sometimes slow. But the servers were very nice, well informed about the food, and helpful when I managed to get their attention.
Overall, this place is a tad too pricey for what it offers. I likely won't go back until the next restaurant week because of this. Nonetheless, I enjoyed my meal here very much.
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