Just no.
How you f**k up fois and urchin is beyond me.
The restaurant is all about buttered bread. Every dish is over taken by the power of caramelized bread with butter. Good bread and great butter but enough already!
This can be lovely and decadent but with ingredients that command their own fatty creamy nature be the star of the show, the dishes fall drastically short .
There is an abundance of fois offered in the terrain however with the salty pork mixed in and the over abundance of salty peanuts as a crust and then the butter crusted bread I'm left asking why can't I taste the fois with so much of it?
I am by no means a purist but with this dish I'm starting to see the appeal. With a sauce of cherries and grapes that's not quite sweet enough to embrace the endless flavors of layered fat and salt I'm left to say this dish is a hot mess!!!
Moving on to the uni. For 22$ you are getting a tun. But a tun of what? Tastes like BOSTON to me. Not much nutty ness. The mild flavour is over taken by again the endless supply of buttered toasted bread. A smear of some kind over powered by (you guessed it) more butter.
Will it ever end?
Thank god for the hamachi!
A flavourful dish slightly over taken by strong flavours of curry but it's freshness is welcome after the endless supply of heavy gut wrenching food first served. This is in the verge of something to write home about.
Plates are beautiful and menu enticing but I expect much more from the baby sister of ALO ... it reminds me more of mediocre French bistro with a few hits and some big misses.