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| - My wife and I had the good fortune of dining at Trentina about two weeks after it opened (about a year ago). We had the chef's tasting menu (the only thing offered at the time) and combined it with the wine pairings - suffice it to say, we thought it was terrific all the way around.
We finally had the opportunity to come back to Trentina, and while making the reservation I took a look at the interim comments and reviews from customers. While many were quite good and on par with our previous assessment of Trentina, I also noticed a good number of people who commented that the tasting menu (12 courses, mind you) had too little food and that they needed to get a fast food hamburger on the way home. While others complained about the wine pairings as providing little more than a single glass of wine throughout the meal. Naturally this concerned me as I wondered if Trentina had, in fact, declined in what it had to offer over the course of the past year.
Well let me put that concern to rest. Trentina is fabulous. Just fabulous. Those who complain about the size of the servings in the tasting menu (at the risk of being flamed) simply eat too much. And the wine pairings are one of the best deals in a prix fixe meal I've ever seen. I would estimate that there are 4+ glasses of wine worth throughout the meal, and they are varied, some unusual, and all delightful. My wife and I took a cab to the restaurant and then home. In fact, I would warn diners that if you get the tasting menu with wine pairings that you must have a designated driver, or take a cab/Uber home. Be safe.
So, back to the tasting menu. I won't go through everything, save to say that each course was unusual, well prepared, creative, and thoughtful on many levels. You may not prefer everything that comes to you (we all have different tastes), though the meal as a whole will be eye-opening, inventive, and memorable. There's nothing else like it in Cleveland.
Get to Trentina, and hurry!
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