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| - Much like its sister restaurants, the Green and Red Rooms, I find that Nirvana lacks a certain something. Nirvana is a bit like the slightly more sophisticated older sister of a friend of yours...she seems so cool from afar but when you finally get to talk to her you realizes she wears Designer Imposters and mispronounces "Proust".
On the face of things, Nirvana seems like it is what the Green Room wants to be when it grows up. The menu is more fulsome, the drinks list is much more varied and sophisticated, and the decor is much much improved. The waitstaff is better looking and the lighting is less squinty-dim and more candlelight intimacy.
A friend in from out of town a few weeks ago and we ended up at Nirvana because some of the preferred haunts nearby were all full. I was excited for the fried tofu appetizer and some of the cocktails, although I reserved judging anything as the last few times I'd been there I'd not found anything too remarkable.
When my friend got her Tom Collins she laughed out loud - not only was it lime Jello green (they aren't supposed to be), it didn't taste like there was any booze in it, which nearly seems impossible in a gin-based drink. I ordered the Lychee Spritz and had the same experience - it tasted like melted ice and a hint of lychee - no real booze in this beverage, and none of the promised grapefruit juice either, oddly.
Our food came and it was decent - not amazing but not absolutely terrible either. With an avowed effort we avoided finishing our drinks and waited to see if the waitress would offer to replace them or at least knock a few bucks off the bill. Except...she didn't come back. Yes, it was busy, but other tables had busting servers shuttling back and forth on a regular basis. We? Sat. For a long time. At the hour mark we debated just walking out, fortunately enough for Nirvana our better natures prevailed. When the waitress did come back she was kind of curt, maybe because we hadn't ordered enough booze or food to warrant a good tip...not that we'd been given the opportunity.
Overall the experience was fine - we chatted and people watched, something that is hard to avoid there, with such a huge open dining space packed full of people. But I'm still a bit peeved at the drinks and bill situation. Nirvana is DEFINITELY a step in the right direction, but I think at this rate, the owners need to open like four or five more venues before they're gonna get it right.
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