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| - Utter disappointment! Being in the industry and hearing all of the great things about Rick Moonen's and his efforts for sustainable seafood, my husband and I were excited to try his restaurant.
Upon arriving we were seated in the bar, without being asked if this was okay. If I'm paying $200 for a meal I would like to sit in the dining room, even if I have to wait. The hostess was very rude and pointed to our table and walked away. Our server approached after about 5 minutes and gave us menus and explained the specials. When we were ready to order my husband asked about the cioppino dish (a San Fran classic), the waiter really didn't explain it at all- but instead recited what was listed on the menu- we can read, we were asking about the flavors, broth, etc. As for the selection-- it is a seafood restaurant and if you don't want the sushi selections, the cooked seafood is very limited!
The bread basket arrived with a buttermilk bisquit, a piece of cornbread, and whipped butter. The cornbread was great and made me excited to try the rest of this dinner. We ordered 6 oysters to start and the tuna duo, the oysters were wonderful (although we usually get these because the kitchen's can never mess up raw oysters). The tuna duo was very small, 2 teaspoons of chopped tuna and 7 or 8 small (about the size of a quarter) slices of tuna. Very, very bland and dry, maybe it was old tuna.
There were no salt and pepper shakers on our table, this bothers me at every restaurant because everyones tastes are different. We asked for more bread and they said "absolutely".. guess what the bread never came and our water glasses were empty nearly the entire night.
The entrees arrived the lobster bolognese for myself and cioppino for my husband... SUPRISE the cioppino has pasta in it and my bolognese has no visible lobster and is soaked in Pernod (black liquorice flavor)... now NO where on the menu did it state pasta or Pernod and when we asked our server this was not mentioned either. The cioppino had little broth (not at all what it's supposed to be) and was SO spicy and I love hot food. Cioppino's should have a spicy tomato based broth, but not so much spice that you can't taste the shellfish... also that tomato based broth- I'm almost 100% positive was out of a can--- V8 anyone? Now what would happen if someone was gluten free and ordered the cioppino-- write it on the menu!!!! Oh, and the frozen texas toast style breadstick was the icing on the cake (the kind you get at Olive Garden-- seriously.) Grilled sourdough? No. The side of orzo my husband ordered was covered in cumin-- less spices and more salt would have been good.
Onto the lobster bolognese, I will say the pasta was perfectly al dente, but with the noodles soaking in the Pernod and was desprite for seasoning, you could not tell if there was any lobster in the dish-- again write the predominate flavors on the menu.
Our waiter kept asking, "Are you perfect?" I'm not one to send back food so we just politely smile... but don't ask me if I'm perfect... waiter's who can not use correct verbage, (ie "How are you enjoying everything this evening?") drive me crazy. He didn't know the menu, spent no time at the table, and was clearly not trained well.
I will not be back nor will I recommend this place to anyone, very disappointing!
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