Alloy was ok... but just ok. A friend and I make a point eating at all the nice/trendy restaurant and Alloy was middle of the pack in all categories.
My pork Belly appetizer was fantastic... a really delicious dish. My friend had the scallops and they were not great. I don't see them on the menu anymore and we went a while ago. So maybe they knew they had a weakness there and removed it. We went a month or two ago, so possible.
For dinner the waitress specifically pointed out I could take any item that was available on the chefs tasting menu and turn it into a full sized meal. I decided to do that with the duck breast but when it came it was quite small, I asked and sure enough I got the tasting menu sized portion... to fix this they just brought another tasting size plate and called it a meal - it came out immediately... I mean my second dish was at the table in under a minute... which is good but also means that the food is not being cooked to order in any way... the plates looked identical... and it gave the whole meal an assembly line feel rather than a hand crafted for me special feel. If I had shelled out the $$ for the "Chef's tasting menu" and got that level of effort I would have been upset. The Alloy chefs should go to the living room and try the chef's tasting menu and see how its done. If the duck was delicious it would have been ok, but it was no Murrieta's duck breast. I don't recall what my friend had but I recall both of us kind of shrugging... it was ok, not mind blowing... in my world mind blowing is 5 stars, shrugging okay is 3.