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| - SO, a group of about 25 of us went to AB last night for restaurant week. I have realized that I just need to stop going out to these "Restaurant Week" events. All of the restaurants serve the same ol' tired "molten chocolate cake" as a dessert choice. Now, that might have been creative in NYC ten years ago, but now it has been done to death (and not usually all that well). Get some new ideas, folks.
That aside, the food here was pretty good, with high quality ingredients, and the flavors really came through. Nothing creative going on here, and though there were some opportunities for that, they were missed. Example: I ordered a basil-lemon martini. I don't really care for lemon, but the basil component was interesting. THe very nice bartender made it for me promptly, but it didn't taste at all like basil. She said, "Yah, our muddler's broken. We had like five, all made from glass, and they kept breaking." Seriously? How much can a metal one cost? The most appalling part of the evening is when dinner was brought out, they gave my dinner to my dim-witted co-diner, who cut into it, said "this isn't mine," and then they picked it up and put it in front of me. HELLO!?! At this point I could hardly say, "I'm not eating a USED steak," because that would be an insult to the girl sitting next to me, so I had to eat it. (And it was pretty good! Cooked exactly mediu-rare!) Still, could you have worse service? Oh yes, because again with dessert, I was the only one out 25 not served, and then they just brought out random desserts, flinging them at people, because "so-and-so lost the ticket." OK, 1: Never admit something like that. It's unprofessional, and 2: never sell out a colleague like that, re: see above. Bad form all around.
The food had enough potential to have me try it again, but this time definitely on a quiet Tuesday night!
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