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| - My friends and I came here Sunday night for a birthday celebration and we were not disappointed!
They had a lot of really great items on the menu and we were having a hard time deciding so the very friendly server suggested the first-timers option, which would be about 12 different dishes including a dessert for $50 a head, so we went for that. The meal was nice, but not beyond expectations.
It started off with the typical pickled veg, olives, bread, cured meat, and cheese plus a couple of fun extras like smoked mussels and sardines. Yum! Next we had some type of croquettes and a crostini type of thing with a meat and shaved foie gras on top. Amazing! The final few dishes were a quarter serving of octopus (which is what they're famous for and which is surprisingly large), steak with chimichurri, and some sautéed greens. Dessert was a simple Basque cake with a sherry cream.
The meal was delicious, but it was very... Unexciting. I feel like the hype about this place really raised my expectations and while I was not disappointed, I was not wowed by any one thing. I highly recommend this place for a wonderful dinner, just don't expect anything "out of the box" in terms of creativity or originality.
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