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| - I have wanted to dine at Bazaar Meat since before SLS opened! Well, Hubby and I were celebrating our 8 year anniversary and I decided it was time to take the plunge. We easily valeted at SLS and made our way to the players club to redeem a $30 dining credit for my birthday.
We were a tad late for our reservation, but I had called to confirm we were still coming. After being greeted by the hostess and who I presume was a manager we waited a few moments then we're told to follow the hostess. Right before walking off the gentleman, who I think was a manager, whispered something to the hostess about our table facing something. We were led through the dining room and past all the kitchens. Our table was a half booth/half table facing the closed, empty side of the dining room, to be fair had we chose to sit in the chairs instead of the comfy booths we would have faced the action.
Our server greeted us soon after sitting down, he went over the menu with us and let us know what the specials were. It took my husband and I a little while to figure out our plan of attack. We decided to pick a few starters-
Passion Up cocktail
LN2 Don't Be A Lemon!
Cotton Candy Foie Gras
Rueben
THE Foieffle
We wanted to try multiple things vs. ordering one large Ribeye so we decided on-
Merino Rack Of Lamb
Chauteaubriand
Street Corn
Delmonico Potatoes
Setas al Aljillo
I ordered the Passion Up and it was AMAZING, I could have taken a bath in that passion fruit foam! The drink itself was a great balance of tart, sweet, and strong. The LN2 is meant as a palate cleanser, it's prepared table side using lots of liquid nitrogen. I loved the texture of it, "the best sorbet I've ever tasted" were the words I said. I used it as a pallette cleanser through the whole meal.
Onto food! I wish I had an endless supply of all 3 starters we chose. They were that phenomenal!!! The Cotton Candy was a great balance of salty/savory. We tried the Rueben next, the salty swiss was a perfect balance for the sauerkraut. Finally THE Foieffle. This crispy Belgian style waffle was full of this peanut butter foie mixture that I could have eatin forever.
Our lamb arrived first, prepared perfectly medium as asked, followed by the potatoes. Perfect pace to take pictures. As I started serving the lamb the rest of our order followed. Perfect timing. Every morsel I put in my mouth was amazing. I highly recommend just ordering exactly what we ordered. Maybe throw in the Iberico Ham, it's the only item I regret not ordering. After we finished my husband asked me my favorite, the lamb stoke the show for me. And THE Foieffle. But really I would order every single item over again.
Now to service. Somewhere between bite checking and when we fished eating, our server disappeared. I had bottled sparkling water but my husband had iced water. We sat finished for a little bit before an assistant offered to clear plates, we asked him for water. We sat a little while longer before I noticed a different server peek around to our out of the way booth. He brought over dessert menus. Then a dessert platter of an array of petite fours. We decided on the 10 piece chef selection of desserts. When our box arrived it was beautiful, but only contained 9 pieces. We stopped a waitress (not ours) to ask about it. She took care of it right away and we were given a chocolate as our 10th piece. Our new server then brought an 11th piece, a creme puff, for our anniversary. My husband's water sat empty through the entirety of dessert.
After such a tasty and down right joyous meal I feel like the ball had been dropped. We were given up by a server who never cared to stop and say bye. We were shoved off on to a server who never cared to introduce his self. From years in the industry it felt like we were being judged as a "who cares" table, maybe because we're young, or maybe we weren't dressed to the 9's. But from the manager sticking us in that awful table in the beginning to not one, but 2 servers, ignoring us I needed to take that 5th star away. When you're spending $300 (before tip) on a meal that tasted OUT OF THIS WORLD, service should make that meal BETTER. Not leave a sour taste in my mouth.
My PC is down, written on my phone. Sorry for errors.
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