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| - I really, truly wanted to love this place. BF and I went last night for the first time. Our server was friendly and showed a thorough knowledge of the menu and most of the specials. One of the specials last night was a Torta (apparently giant tortellini). The server said she would check with the kitchen to find out what kind it was.
In the meantime, a large table of men obviously there on expense accounts were seated next to our table. If I saw that kind of tip potential walk in the door I probably would have fawned over them, too, and forgot about everyone else. I asked our server three separate times what the Torta special was. Then she returned quite late to take our food order. BF and I shared an arugula and speck (ham) salad, a first course (egg noodles with wild boar) and a second course (pork shoulder, pork sausage with potatoes in a tomato sauce). When we ordered we told her we were sharing and would like extra plates. No extra plates came with the food. Again, we had to ask multiple times for the extra plates. She was so scatterbrained.
So, for service, as much as I liked the server and as knowledgable as she was, she just wasn't keeping it together last night. Yes, I understand: expense accounts = big tips. But the BF and I are locals, and with better service we would probably return to the restaurant as regulars. The corporate dudes probably won't come back. Be nice to us wee locals.
As for the food, it was good. Not great, but good. But now I'm craving the food at A Pig in a Fur Coat on Willy St, where they do pork dishes better than anyone else.
Almost forgot dessert. We shared Lemon Tarte with Raspberry Sorbet and Whipped Cream. All three items were delicious, although the BF stated the whipped cream tasted odd. I couldn't tell. I would have paired either the tarte or the sorbet with something less tangy to let either one shine. As it was, it was too much sour (too much "tartness") going on and it just tasted like a big mish-mash of sour.
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