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| - As with so much of the food offerings from this area, what I encountered here today is a great concept, poorly executed. I like the market/restaurant/cafe combo, and was excited about visiting here, as it's quite close to home for me. And, while I enjoyed the market and the cafe, the restaurant fell short. It's a lovely enough space, with farm house style tables for communal dining and a wood fired oven. The menu is concise and easy to understand: pizza, sandwiches, salad and wood fired wings. I tried a salad with their house dressing and wood fired chicken, and a cup of their house soup, which is creamy tomato and roasted red pepper. I enjoyed the soup, but the salad was a disappointing mess. Their house dressing is a balsamic vinaigrette, which was not great tasting and had enough dried herbs in it that they resembled lawn cuttings. The roasted veggies were fine, but the chicken breast was so dry...well, the Sahara is a dewy oasis in comparison to this chicken breast. For the exective chef, if you're reading this...I would rather wait and have you fire up a fresh chicken breast than eat the one your staff cooked off this morning and then rewarmed in the oven. Chicken cooked this way will never, ever be moist and tasty. I know it saves you time and makes things move along more smoothly to do as much prep ahead of time as possible, but this is one area where you might want to not cut corners. I ended up sending my salad back and getting another that was equally dry. That was their opportunity to do it right, so they failed twice. I like the market and the cafe, but will be skipping lunch at this place in the future.
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