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| - I grabbed the Groupon for this and was super excited to be dining at another restaurant in the Cosmo (trying to hit up all of them). It was $51 for a dinner for two with a bottle of Rose.
Neither of us like Rose, so we asked the waitress for an alternative and we were offered two alcoholic beverages instead. The bf had just a beer while I tried one of their cocktails, the Ramble. It's a concoction of gin with muddled raspberry and lemon. I'm not a fan of gin, which may be the reason I didn't like it. I really thought tasted like dish washing soap.. But there was a lot of fresh raspberry so I'm chalking it up to just not liking gin.
We decided to get an appetizer on top of the two entrees. We had the roasted bone marrow and oxtail jam. The bone marrow was just standard, nothing special. The name "oxtail jam" is a little misleading, but I'm not complaining. It was a very nicely sized bowl of super tender and juicy oxtail with 6 small slices of bread. The oxtail was delicious and there was some cilantro on top to add a little more flavor. I just wish there was more bread for the oxtail to sit on top of.
For the entrees, I had the Berkshire pork and the bf had the beef brisket. Both of us agreed the pork was much better. It had 3 different preparations of pork and all were very tender and flavorful. The favorite was a sort of shredded pork mashed with seasonings, served somewhat cold/room temp. The brisket was interesting. It was super tender, but at the same time it was dry and pretty flavorless. The corn succotash was alright too.
We substituted one of the sides from the brisket for the mac n' cheese for $1 extra. It looked delicious when it came out but when we dug in, we were a bit disappointed. It was creamy and everything, pretty good flavor, but there's a thick layer of panko breading on top that made each bit a little dry. I wish there was less of that.
Besides the food, service was pretty phenomenal. They were very attentive (probably because there wasn't too many people there, even on a Friday night to our surprise!) but not overbearing.
For dessert we had some lemon butter cookie with fruits and a gelato. It was basically a de-constructed fruit tart. The cookie was a little tough but fruits were all good as well as the gelato.
The one major downside to this restaurant: they added 18% gratuity even though it was only 2 of us! The service was great and I probably would have left a nice tip regardless, but forcing a party of 2 to pay that much tip is a bit ridiculous.
Overall, the food wasn't spectacular but not bad. But we still paid almost another $50 even after the Groupon. This place wasn't really worth the price tag, but it was fun to try.
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