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| - My family and I cam here on Saturday night to celebrate my mom's birthday. We were excited to try it and glad to see it so busy, which is usually a good sign for a new restaurant. It still happened to be Happy Hour, so were were able to get some $1 oysters! They were really good, very fresh and served with cocktail sauce, horseradish and a sweet mignotte, which was a nice option. We also tried the clam chowder, and while not traditional, we all really liked it. This is when things started to go downhill. We had ordered the Tuna Tartare at the same time as our oysters, and 15 minutes after we finished the oysters it still had not arrived. When it did arrive, it was great, and the restaurant did comp it....but it seemed odd that something that didn't need to be cooked took so long to come out.
When our main courses arrived, half of the side dishes came out cold, including two orders of fries, basmati rice, broccolini and we were missing a salad. We sent the fries back but didn't bother mentioning the other items. The shrimp, which we ordered grilled, were overdone and tough, and they didn't really have much flavor, even with the sauce. My sister enjoyed the salmon on the plancha and the lobster roll was decent and a good portion, but we felt that all the choices of the sides made for a confused kitchen and worked against them in getting their timing down, hence the cold food.
There is some potential here, and maybe we just ordered wrong, but overall not that impressed. When it came time for dessert, we ordered two (creme brulee and gelato) and we were done eating the creme brulee and the gelato hadn't even come out yet...which once again, seemed odd.
Maybe I will give them some time to work out the kinks and try it again...but as of right now, I am in no rush to go back.
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