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| - Dying to get out of the house and looking for a special date night with my wife, we settled on going to Georges Brasserie. After looking over a few yelp reviews and knowing our deep love for muscles and fine wine, I figured this place would hit the spot. Georges Brasserie is a suave place tucked away in Piedmont Row that is serving up some serious French eats and great French wine.
Our reservations were for Saturday, so naturally the place was packed. We started by looking over the wine list and were delighted to see many options. While more familiar with Italian and California wines, we settled on a French Chianti and were delighted by the Sommelier who helped us make a great informed decision. Moving to the meal, we started with the fiery mussels and the escargot. Let me start by saying the serving of fiery mussels is enormous and amazingly delicious. Seriously though, we spent over half an hour sipping wine and mowing down muscles. Granted, I may have been slowed down by dipping several slices of bread into the sauce. Our waiter reminded us several times that they have bottomless muscles on Tuesdays, so I plan on making a return! The escargot was also as good as expected. After completing our appetizers, we realized we were stuffed and would end our meal on a high note.
I will say the overall experience that night was bittersweet. While I appreciated the decor and arrangement, the tables are spaced way to close to one another which caused issues for us during our dinner. For starters, my wife was hit / had her chair kicked by hurried staff on multiple occasions throughout the night. While I understand the place is busy, it detracted from our pricey dinner and date night out. In addition the overall space was very loud since everyone is on top of one another. I hope to head this off next time we visit by requesting specific tables that were more out of the way. In the end, the meal was amazing and I look forward to visiting this place again soon. Perhaps I can make it past the bucket of muscles next time and try some of their enticing dinner entrees!
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