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| - Overall, I was not impressed with Beauty & Essex, but there were some high points of the experience.
The ambience was very cool- sort of dark with leather chairs, big booths, and tons of art on the walls. It was pretty loud, though.
The food is tapas-style, and our server recommended ordering 3-5 dishes per person. We had 2.5 for each of us, which was plenty (4 girls), although the portions are by no means overwhelming. We had the Thai shrimp, which was the best dish we ordered. We also had BBQ fries (fries with some BBQ-y dust on them), mushroom flatbread, poke tacos, and 2 of the tomato soup with grilled cheese wontons. They really hype up the grilled cheese/ tomato wontons but you should know that you're just going to get a wonton spoon with a little bit of soup and a cheese ball in it.
I also had the emerald gimlet, which was very refreshing and basil-y.
We were only there for about an hour, but it seemed like our server was trying to get us out asap. We hadn't made decisions about food when she brought our drinks, which we ordered pretty much as soon as we sat down, but she stood there and waited at the table until we decided and ordered. For a pricey place, it would have been nice to get better service and a little more food.
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