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| - Lovely, elegant, expensive but casual at the same time. You sit at a counter overlooking the unusually quiet and drone-like cooking staff. Seriously, they worked like robots without incident. It was quite a feat.
There were, however, little missteps in our service like me going without silverware for the first course and having to ask for it a couple of times. Also, and this bugs me, in a place like this, I shouldn't have to ask for my glass of water to be refilled; that's inexcusable for the price point.
BUT, the food IS great. We each did the Discovery menu and every little dish and bite was sublime, from light poached shrimp atop the polenta to the surprising chicken and foie gras, we loved everything. Beautifully presented, it's like each dish was part of the story. And that hot chocolate dessert in the end was absolutely perfect!
Maybe we'll be rich enough to someday try the bigger, more decadent Joel Rubochon next door. Someday . . . for now, we're happy with sampling this gem.
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