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| - If I could give Terre Rouge 0 stars here, I would. TLDR: I would not recommend going here whatsoever.
One dish I was looking forward to was the baked brie - and it was a major disappointment. At $14 I expected a sizeable chunk of cheese for bread to dip into, but what we received was 5 slivers of bread and a SUPER THIN layer of cheese (literally probably only 1mm) in a mini pan, topped with a few berries. To make it worse, after each of us 4 diners ate a portion, with 1/5 portion remaining, the waiter abruptly begins to clear our plates and cutlery. We thought he was clearing away for our mains, but after he also snatched away our appetizer. Two of us loudly said we were not finished with it, but he was in a huge rush to turn and walk away from us that we were ignored. That was extremely offputting and rude but goes to say how small the portions were that 1/5 of the dish looked like scraps.
We wondered how we could politely complain or comment on this matter and decided to speak to the chef directly since he was out talking to the guests sitting beside us and looked like he would make his way around to everyone. However, the Chef (who quite happily so) only talked to this one table and no one else. Given it's a new restaurant and he gave so much attention to them, it was shocking and disappointing he gave no glance to anyone else. And whether intentional or not, it felt discriminatory because that one table who happened to get special customer service were the only Caucasian looking diners in the restaurant. And this was not just from the chef but also from the same waiter.
Other than that there was general unattentiveness from the wait staff where my friends had no opportunity to ask for salt or ketchup for their fries, it was somehow also not offered to begin with either. Waiters seemed quite unprofessional, host having no idea whether my friends arrived or not, waiter loudly saying to the host they had no idea where a specific table number was to take me to, attitude on being asked to split bills - just not the kind of service you expect at the upscale price they are positioning themselves to be.
Food was average, it was not specifically good or bad for its price point. But for that kind of service I would not be going again, and obviously will be telling everyone to avoid as well.
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