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| - Visited with my wife for our anniversary this past weekend. We were pleasantly surprised. Started with the chicken spring rolls, which were very good. The wasabi and plum sauce we sweet and spicy. My wife ordered the beef tenderloin and really enjoyed it. It was cooked perfectly to her liking. I ordered the lamb shank which was "fall-off-the-bone" delicious. Fork has an a-la-carte style menu, so we split the goat cheese mac & cheese and the asparagus side dishes. The asparagus was perfectly cooked and the mac and cheese was wonderful! I plan on going back for lunch, just to eat the mac & cheese. For dessert, we had the sweet potato cheesecake, with homemade, toasted marshmallow. It was awesome. Not too sweet and very tasty. Fork also does a nice job with the bar menu. My wife sampled a few of the fruit martinis and I had a pumpkin ale, from NoDa Brewing. It was nice to see local brews on the menu. As for service, our waitress was very nice and attentive. Her service could not have been better. There were a couple of things keeping me from a five-star rating. The host was a little weird and stared at my wife a little to long, so that was a little uncomfortable. Also, we were seated in the rear dining room (this restaurant is in an old house, so there are multiple dining rooms) where the lighting is awful. The other rooms and the bar have very soft, warm lighting. The room we were in had a very cool light fixture made of colored, glass bottles, but for some reason they have a bright white, high efficiency lightbulb in it that makes the whole room feel like it is lit by a florescent shop light. Harsh lighting and our anniversary did not go hand in hand. I have seen a couple other reviews comment on high prices. I did not find Fork to be expensive for the quality of the food you get. You can tell they are using top notch ingredients and the prices are not out of line. $18.00 for a lamb shank and $23 for beef tenderloin is fine. The sides are also inexpensive at $3-$5 each. All told, we ate and drank (3 cocktails, 1 app, 2 entrees, 2 sides and dessert) for under $100.00. Give Fork a try. It will only get better as they work the kinks out.
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