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| - When your writing the 187th review for a restaurant there is a small part of you that begs to ask the question do you honestly think you have anything new, exciting, or insightful to add..... even Hemingway might have shied away until some prestigious number like 200 rolled around. But I'm sure as hell not Hemingway, so let's roll the dice.
With little doubt it's an absolutely certainty that the food has been glowingly covered in one aspect or another in the previous 186 reviews. It's a sure thing you can randomly pick almost any review and find people raving over Fez burgers, lamb kisra, sweet potato fries, and Hummus. First off the sweet potato fries are good, not just good but the kind of good that they would have burned you at the stake over during the dark ages, the Catholic church has sins that pale in comparison to the fries. The lamb was at least equally remarkable, in my book if you kill something that sweet and innocent it should at least be handed over to a damn fine kitchen, it melted in your mouth. It was the kind of thing that made you want to go steal a truck load of the little bastards and roll them up to the backdoor of Fez so you could have it all. The desserts will not leave you disappointed, but they will put your dentist's kids through college. The chocolate mousse is so good you'll want to bathe in it, they must have sacked a South American coco plantation for that one.
The bar is well stocked and knows how to put together a strong drink as well. I'm not talking some scamp behind the counter mixing the modern day equivalent of pirate grog, the drinks are good but still nothing short of what you would use to load up dart on the African savannah to knock down a bull elephant. Definitely takes the edge off a bad day.
The restaurant interior is contemporary yet comfortable with excellent lighting. I'm sure in the previous 186 reviews some poor bastard that was hard up for something new to say has even remarked about the bathrooms being well decorated and clean. He would be right but still you poor sod, get a life and talk about the patio or something entertaining. The only issues I've ever had at Fez have been service related, while the staff have always been professional and very friendly, there have been several times when the service was a tad spotty respective to drink refills, informing the dinner party of the specials, and minor issues like the time the server expected me to tackle cutting my steak with a spoon.
Obviously, you don't write the 187th review for fortune and glory. At this stage it's all about the statistical base respective to enforcing that Fez is an excellent restaurant and that if you haven't checked it out yet then you're obviously missing something.
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