This one has been on my bucket list ever since I came over to Wisconsin. A fancy unusual name always tends to draw you in with mystery!! Sadly, the mystery wasn't so mysterious once we explored it.
Decor : Wooden furniture with black walls kinda reminded of a version of a local butcher shop back home!! Not my cup of tea for a fine dining joint but hey at-least they're being adventurous!!
Service : Friendly overall but average on execution. No explanation of dishes which I thought was a customary thing to do in fine dining places. Alas, our server/s merely named the dish and went away.
Our dishes for the night - Meatballs, Foie Gras Mousse, Octopus, Porchetta, Cheesecake
Good : Let's start with what impressed us the most - Foie Gras Mousse. The foie gras was so perfectly executed and seasoned, it tasted like one of the best butter's I've had in a while. Paired beautifully with a sweet fig jam layer, the contrast of sweet and salty was symphony!. The bombolini was a good carrier as it's soft texture and neutral flavor played the perfect supporting cast :).
Meh/Average : Majority of the dishes fall here.
The Meatballs with "bone marrow" are nothing more than just a very well executed version of your average.....meatballs. I couldn't trace any Bone Marrow at all. They could've tried to keep some chunks of it within the meatballs so it stayed there.
The Porchetta was cooked fine but dangerously close to being dry and leathery. The stuffing was bland and had no connectivity to the dish at all. The saving grace here was the mashed potato which was sinful! Overall not worth $25.
The Cheesecake had a overpowering taste of a lemon tart but in its advertised ingredients there was no lemon to be seen. Couldn't taste or sense the Lavender at all.
Ugly : The Octupus dish was one that disappointed me the most. The octopus itself was cooked rather well but its accompanying sauce/puree was bitter and god awful. Sorry but that does not bode well for a rather bland meat like Octopus.
The water we were served had a fishy smell to it and an odd after taste. Sure enough we avoided any more for the rest of the evening.
All in all, disappointed.