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| - This one's gonna be tough... When you pay 3-digits for a meal, you're paying for more than what's just on the plate but the plate itself and everything between it and the parking lot! So I write this taking the whole experience in - service and ambience apply.
Checked out the menu, made reservations, and my wife and I arrived expecting a romantic dining experience.
Food was damn good, period. Although they ran out of Osso Buco and Paparadelle - not good. I wasn't too happy about "running out" of dishes (plural!) at a place that takes reservations...
Service? Waitress was nice n' all - but she didn't exude the professionalism I expect from a place trying to take on such a classy tone. For example, she didn't know the menu all too well and had to run in a couple of times to answer basic questions about what accompanied the entrees (i.e. pasta or rice? veggies?). Some of the comments she made, I hate to say it but she fit more in a diner than a classy joint. (She mentioned she was a short-timer anyway...) Not a good mood-setter.
Outside surroundings aren't the best - the site and sound of hospital support machines accompany you from the parking lot to the front door and can be seen through the windows from the dining room. Might seem petty, especially since I wouldn't care at a diner or fast food joint. Again, judging it wholly on being a 3-digit meal experience, it just wasn't a good mood-setter.
So I need to judge it on the whole experience. Food? 100% for what we got. But it's the little things that pulled it down from a 5-star experience for me. If it wasn't for the food, I'd give it a 3-star experience. So bottom line, would I go here again? Yyyyyyeah, but I wouldn't go out of my way to get there.
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