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| - Went here last weekend for dinner, we went for the wife's bday. We'd be planning a trip to the French Laundry but got denied to due the size of our party. So we came here so we could try out a Thomas Keller restaurant. I reserved our seating through Open Table with a note that it was my wife's birthday and it would be appreciated if someone gave her a birthday greeting.
So our reservations were at 8pm, we arrived and we're seated early, we elected to sit outside, it was a bit hot even though it was evening, but as the night went on it cooled down noticeably. There was a wedding going on too so there was playing in the background which was cool. Although I never in my life would've been able to for see hearing Akon, Game and Two Live Crew as we dined haha.
So after we were seated the waiter (young pinoy guys) wished the wife a Happy Birthday, went on about the soup of the day and entree' of the evening, but he failed to give us his name. He forgot a few things that night, but he was entertaining enough with his weird antics. (Jumping in peoples photos, making weird jokes and him forgetting my mac and cheese...wait that wasn't funny.)
Okay onto the food, we ordered the following:
Fromage (Cheese) Tasting portions, $15.25
- Pt. Reyes Cheese Co. Blue - Tasted like that Kraft cheese in the blue can...you other Filipinos will know what I mean, but it was still good. Can't fade that canned cheese taste.
- Abbaye de Belloc - Eh? This was okay.
- Cypress Grove Mad River Roll - This was our favorite, mix with honey and put in on an apple slice...yum!
- Sliced apples and honeycomb
Came with bread two kinds of bread, I didn't care for either the cheese was good on it's own or with the apples and honey, but the bread eh...OH that reminds me the bread and butter they served was bomb, if you can manage to sneak the butter dish with the butter, into your dates purse you should do it. Crazy good butter....
Macaroni au Gratin, $5.75 - After enjoying Alexander's mac and cheese I wanted to see a real French chef's version. Couldn't wait for this to come out.....it never did. The waiter whose name we never knew owned up to messing up on this though, rather than pawn it off on someone else, so he was forgiven. Plus I was too full to eat it anyways.
Next up we got our main entree, which was:
Steak Frites, $34.50, a pan-seared prime flatiron served with maitre d hotel butter and french fries. - This was okay I guess. I ordered mine medium rare and it came out that way. My wife got medium but for the most part it was well doen except for a small bit in the center. The fries were pretty good, but I prefer the ones you'd find at a W Hotel or Citrus at the Valencia.
After a while dessert comes and damn since the guy, whose name I don't know but was serving us food, messed up our mac and cheese delight he made up for it in the dessert hook up. He said that birthdays normally get 1 of 3 selections, but since he forgot one of our orders we got 3 of the 3!!!!
Okay dessert time, $0.00, FREE!!!! Prices are just there FYI.
Beignet, not on menu no price - Doughnut type pastry w/ jam inside plus Vanilla ice cream & Chocolate Sauce
Creme Glacee/ Sorbet de Fruits, $5.50 Ice cream/ sorbet
Molten chocolate cakes, not on menu no price - 3 costco brownie bite sized cakes with different types of chocolate inside. Vanilla and chocolate ice cream on the side.
The whole meal was kinda disappointing except for the desserts, with Thomas Keller putting his name on this place I figured it'd be a dining experience to match up to Alexanders...but it didn't. Even though our waiter did a decent job of service and hooked it up for dessert, the lack of introduction, forgetting to tell us about a skirt steak special and forgetting my mac and cheese just made the night not as enjoyable as I'd wanted it to be.
Oh and the girl sitting near us wearing the dress that made her look naked as it got darker was tight too. Hell I'm gonna add a star just for her.
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