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| - Went for dinner to Tin Angel with my wife for our anniversary as this was the restaurant where we had our first date years ago. The view was just as fantastic as that first visit but the food was nowhere close.
For the prices charges I would expect some effort to be put into the food preparation and appropriate starters. Instead we received a choice of fruit or chicken noodle soup. That was the sign if things to come as chicken noodle soup, while great at a diner or when sick, doesn't really match a $50+ steak dinner.
I would think wild mushroom, a bisque of some type or French onion would be much more appropriate. And would a choice be too much to expect? To top it off the chicken noodle soup looked like dishwater with some very small cubes of chicken (most likely out of a can), celery and noddles. Progresso would have been better than what was served.
The main courses we chose were the filet with mushrooms and the ocean platter.
The filet was ordered "medium" and was served with a blackened top and cold, red center so not medium and not really medium rare or rare, just poorly cooked. Meat quality itself was just OK, more in line with a filet from a grocery chain and not anywhere close to what could be called high quality.
The ocean platter consisted of a approximately 4-5oz lobster tail, 4 shrimp, 4 scallops?, and approximately 1-2oz of crab meat.
The lobster tail was cooked correctly, being the single item prepared as expected.
The 4 "shrimp scampi" were presented with tails on and undercooked with no discernible seasoning and again, appeared to be typical of a grocery chain 36-40 count shrimp quality and size.
The crab meat was cooked under a broiler and was ok but once again, typical of a canned crab meat in quality.
I've saved the "scallops" for last as they were the greatest disappointment. Let me start by saying that a properly prepared scallop, one that is browned on top and just cooked thru with a slightly sweet flavor and melt in your mouth can be fantastic. The scallops at the tin angel were just the opposite - these round little soggy disks of what might have been scallops were covered in what can only be described as bread crumb mush. There was zero texture to the bread crump mixture and it appeared that they were either woefully undercooked or soaked in butter giving them a disgusting bread crumb "coating" that was neither appealing to look at or eat. The scallop themselves were cold in the middle and had very little flavor. I can say with certainty that Gordon Ramsey would declare them as "shit" if he was served these scallops - lol.
The deserts were just ok - dry chocolate cake and decent baklava.
Overall I have given the 1 star rating for the staff and view as they were both excellent. The cook, and believe me, there is obviously no "chef" present at this restaurant, is either woefully unskilled or lazy and the food as we experienced was not even on par with a chain such as Applebee's or Texas Road House.
Unfortunately the tin angel would be served better with a name change to fallen angel.
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