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| - Left a couple of things to be desired, but ultimately well worth the price. For about $30 / person we walked away pleased.
The lighting is a bit too dim, and it would be nice to enjoy the food visually as well as gastronomically, since the presentation is quite nice. The service was good without being obtrusive. One nice thing about menu is that it changes regularly, with about five nightly specials featuring a variety of appetizers, entrees, and desserts. Sadly, they did not post a current menu on their website so I did not get to try a dish I was looking forward to. It would also be nice if they posted the specials, which might even entice people to visit more often.
We ordered two appetizers, two entrees and a dessert; of these, one entree and the dessert was off the menu, and the rest were all specials. I have been to places where the specials were not as well executed as the menu items, this is not the case here.
Appetizers:
1. Beef Carpaccio with various marinated vegetables and shaved grana cheese. The beef was sliced a little too thick for a carpaccio, resulting in it being a bit hard to chew. However, the flavor was good and went well with the veggies and cheese.
2. Concord grape salad with walnuts, grana, bacon, greens. Very tasty grapes were the highlight of this dish. It seemed strangely off, however, the bacon was good (of course) but was somewhat unnecessary. The salad would have been just as good without the bacon, and the dressing for the greens was very faint.
Entrees:
1. Tagliatelle tossed with wild Texan boar. The sauce was good and the abundance of cheese was good. The boar was dry, too lean, and had a lot of alcohol flavor.
2. Squid ink risotto with scallops, mahi, tomatoes. Best $13 ever spent, or very nearly so. The dish had a pungent aroma from the squid ink, but was not pungent in flavor. The risotto was done perfectly.
Dessert:
Plum brown sugar cake with raspberry sorbet. Great cake, nice fruit compote on top with very tasty plums. Very intense raspberry sorbet, almost like pomegranate in flavor.
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