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| - What a disappointment. At a five star five diamond hotel, in a restaurant where you are going to spend $150 per person, it is reasonable to expect a great experience. Unfortunately, there were some rookie mistakes with our meal. But even before we sat down there were some issues. First, when my friend and I arrived for our reservation, they made us wait when there were clearly tons of two tops tables. When we went to the bar for a glass of wine while waiting, the bartender was rude and made me feel like I was bothering him. Not a great start.
As for the food:
For a starter, I ordered the procuitto parmesean fettucini for $16. When it arrived it looked great, but when I dug in all I could taste was pepper. Seems the chef went a little bit crazy with the grinder and I couldn't even taste any of the other ingredients. The pasta was cooked properly, but it was really not good otherwise. My friend ordered a fois gras that was off the menu for a starter (she likes it seared vs. the terrine they had on the menu). It was great that they were happy to make something special, but when it arrived the texture was off and it was hard to cut through - which is ridiculous. I'm not sure how much they charged for this item, but the terrine was $21. I'm guessing this was more. Moving on to our main courses: I had the diver scallops ($30 something) and Linda had the filet mignon ($52ish). The steak was perfect (to me), but was cooked to the wrong temperature for her. My scallops tasted like they had been dipped in black pepper first. What is UP with the pepper????? For sides we ordered the truffle creamed corn and the potato au gratin ($10 each).....yes, it was a carb fest! Both were very good, but the texture of the corn was a little strange.
The wines by the glass offering was awful. They had two chards, one pinot grigio and a sauv blanc for the whites and ranged in price from $12 to $20 a glass. I didn't check out the reds. Since Linda and I have different tastes in wine, we didn't order a bottle and it's always a disapointment to have such limited options when spending so much.
The two stars are for the service and for the bread basket. Our server was attentive, funny and even seemed to enjoy his job. And the bread basket was really good too. It was filled with mini fresh french baguettes and these yummy bacon, cheddar buns. The butter was room temperature and had interesting salts and olive oil drizzled over it.
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