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| - Went here for restaurant week with my husband. We've been wanting to try this place for a while as we've heard some mixed reviews about it. Firstly, we liked the ambience. Great space that is not too crowded. We were seated at a table right in front of the open kitchen. It was nice to watch our meal being prepared (and it was warmer than the main dining room, which was perfect!). The table setting here is very minimal - there is nothing on your table except for a napkin and cutlery that hey eventually bring over after you've ordered. Drinks are placed directly on the table without a coaster, which can be kind of annoying with the water marks.
We had a ginger mojito cocktail to start which was great - good amount of alcohol and a hint of spicy was from the ginger. However, the drink arrived after our starter arrived.
We ordered the restaurant week set menu. For he starter, we had the scallop ceviche. It was not the best tasting starter I've had - the flavor of the scallop was the main focus of the dish - and nothing else. In this case, the scallop needed to be extremely fresh, which I don't think it was.
For our mains, I had the red snapper bouillabaisse and my husband had the cod fish. We also added an extra side order of Mac and cheese, and thank got we did. The portion of the mains were tiny! Three bites and everything was gone. I understand the concept of a restaurant like this, but I also think that certain pets of the dish can be increased in order to give people more than three bites! The taste of both dishes were ok - nothing that blew our minds - very basic flavors without much creativity. The shrimp that came with my bouillabaisse was especially unmemorable - pretty much just boiled and placed on top and poured over with some gravy. The Mac and cheese was good - simple without being too cheesy. Despite the added order, we were still hungry.
Our dessert was the sidewalk crunch (chocolate based) and the berry compote. Now this is the part where hey try to get you full - big dessert portions. I'm honestly not really a dessert portion, and my sidewalk crunch was unnecessarily filled with too many cheap ingredients like Oreos, chocolate dipped pretzels, and a really strange textured cookie thing?? It was awful. The whole fish texture wise did not complement at all! The brownies and the ice cream that came with it were good, but otherwise, it was too much.
Service overall was decent - can't complain about anything major. But the staff generally needed a bit more motivation for their jobs.
We paid $110 for one cocktail, once Mac & cheese, and a three course dinner -without tip for our meal. I can imagine this would all have costed $160-170 without the restaurant week price. Would we go back? Definitely NOT unless we were getting a free dinner with at least two rounds of food for each of us. We left hungry and unsatisfied, and very underwhelmed. I like to give restaurants two chances, but I will not be going back anytime soon unless I win the lottery.
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