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| - 3.5 stars for the food, round up to 4 for the service. For a restaurant called Pig and Pickle, you would expect their pickles and pork dishes to be amazing. However, we were slightly disappointed with some of the dishes we encountered.
For appetizers, we started out with the bone marrow, the Shishito peppers, watermelon blue crab salad, and pickles. The Shishito peppers were full of flavor and pretty good, I don't eat peppers often so it was a nice change. The sauce was a little on the salty side though. The watermelon blue crab salad was more interesting than good. A really unique mix of flavors, but it was okay. The bone marrow was our favorite of the appetizers, the marrow was very meaty and flavorful, but the salsa didn't exactly match with the marrow. Last but not least, the pickles. There were pickles green beans, egg, grapes, mushroom, okra, and pickles. The grapes were surprisingly really good pickled, it was a nice combination of sweet and sour. It was cool getting to try all of the different types!
For entrees, we shared the duck, pork shank, and the mussels. The pork was really basic. Buffalo sauce, blue cheese. It wasn't that good. Really disappointed in this dish. The mussels were fresh, but the chorizo was thinly cut and super chewy. It was not bad. However, it was the duck that saved the day. The duck was cooked a perfect medium rare and it was so tender and juicy! Paired with the pears and nuts, this dish was absolutely delightful!!
The total came out to be around $120 for four people as we also got a few drinks. Pretty cool how they age their own whiskey here; I would recommend ordering their drinks! They have two partners who opened this restaurant- one specialized in food and the other in bar tending which is super cool. The service was fantastic, and we had a good time!
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