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| - Lunch and dinner--like, well......day and night.
Short take: Come for dinner only when the A-team is at work. The C-team cooks lunch; let them practice on someone else. Lunch highlight, however, is a delicious bread basket. Go figure.
Today, we had lunch a second time at C2. We ordered the street tacos, a cheese burger and the beet lettuce salad. Almost as bad as our experience at North Coast yesterday. It took far too long to get our food with so few diners having lunch. The street tacos had stayed under the warmer too long and wilted the tomatoes and lettuce in the tacos. The mystery meat in the tacos was boingy and felt like it had been microwaved. Just terrible, terrible. The crunchy beets that are the highlight of the salad--limp and chewy. I've ordered this salad three times now and each time, except this one--at lunch--I got those great crispy dehydrated beets that are super crispy like potato chips. My son ordered the parmesan fries and our server brought plain fries. We said we didn't need ketchup; she brought it anyway--I don't care about that, but the point is she was not paying attention at all; just like our server at North Coast. She took the order and didn't check it before bringing it out. I was hungry at lunch and just got demoralized b/c the food took so long to get out, obviously sat under the lamp, the tacos were unforgiveably terrible, and it made me not want to step into C2 again. Ever.
Dinner last night? As if we were in a completely different restaurant. The ribeyes were cooked perfectly (mid-rare) as were the sweet potatoes that accompanied them. The prime rib we had for dinner one other night was also pretty good but the au jus was a bit salty.
We stayed at the Intercontinental Suites for almost 2 weeks and only once had the breakfast buffet here; mediocre; I wouldn't recommend it. But, I did ask for poached eggs three mornings to take to a recuperating family member and they were excellently done each time. There's ability lurking in the kitchen here but what's the hurdle to becoming a great food outlet for the Intercontinental where so many of the guests are staying for weeks at a time to be near the Cleveland Clinic.....?
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