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| - This place was opened in November 2016. After reading the good reviews by fellow yelpers, we decided to try this out for their Mother's Day Brunch.
First, this is at a wonderful location overlooking a lake. The decor and setting are very pleasant.
The food for Mother's Day brunch was excellent. Their Mother's Day Brunch menu consists of an unlimited tapas like dishes offering along with a carving station. There were three of us and we ordered many, many dishes. The only dish that I found somewhat objectionable was their artichoke soup - not hot enough and not tasty enough. Other than that, every dish that we ordered was excellent.
Portions and plating of each dish varied from the first order to the second order.
Overheard some one mentioned that they have run out of clean dishes and thus the variation.
Still I don't understand that our first Shrimp and Grits had three huge shrimp and the second one only two shrimp. ??
The wait staff was friendly and tried very hard to please. However, they were totally dis-organized. It made no sense that they had to run back to the kitchen to get clean dishes - instead of having a wait station where all the supplies are easily accessible.
The carving station was not laid out appetizingly. The deserts were very good but only limited variety - most of them were in plastic cups.
Based on food, this is at least a four plus star restaurant. Based on service, a three star.
I have enjoyed the food and wish them well. Hopefully, they can make improvements soon.
10/5/17: Revisited this restaurant yesterday for dinner.
The place is still beautiful, very quiet, by the lakeside. Extremely pleasant to share a nice quiet dinner with yours.
There were three of us, we ordered grilled Octopus, Brentwood Corn Chowder and Compressed watermelon for appetizer. For entries, we ordered NY Steakwith crab legs, Scallops. For side orders, we ordered Crab fried rice and sauteed spinach.
All the dishes are beautifully plated. Unfortunately, I cannot use the adjective "Delicious" to describe any of the dishes. Nothing there to wow us. Although none of the dishes is terribly done that we have to return it. But then, for this pricing, for this ambiance, it is certainly quite a disappointment.
For the Brunch buffet that we visited in May this year, it is very worthy of a 4 star.
For our latest dinner, a 3 star is just about it.
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