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We arrived 15 minutes before our reservation and it took the hostess 5 minutes to figure out that we were who we said we were.
We sat down and our server promptly gave us water...which is great except there was a chard of glass in its, but she replaced it quickly.
We started off with the shortrib risotto. Risotto can go extremely well, or horribly wrong, but this turned out really good. It was rich and creamy and the shortrib was perfectly cooked.
Second up was the cheese fondue, and it was far from cheese, or fondue. It was more like clarified butter in consistency. The items included with the cheese fondue were pickels (??) two kinds of charcuterie meat (?) and a small piece of bread that was slightly stale.
After was the mixed grill. This had venison sausage, which was good, a small steak, which was lukewarm, There were also the ribs, and those were good, but a bit cold.
Then we got dessert. The desserts there aren't priced like normal restaurants at this level, which is normally $8, these were $4.5 each for most. I had the chai bread pudding - looove bread pudding. This was stale, and had butter at the bottom, no chai flavoring at all. Like Notable - they do a great bread pudding, which is soft and not too moist that it breaks apart in much. This one at Tango was hard and it broke apart in dry chunks.
Sigh, after that our waitress took a $20 from us and took 15 minutes to come back to us for our change. We both got the feeling she wanted us to tip her the whole $20 and was waiting us out, it was very uncomfortable. She also didn't listen very well, because when she repeated what I said, she kept getting things wrong. I heard her do it to another table as well, and when she responded they both gave her quizzical looks.
Anyways, I feel like Tango could be a good restaurant, but it needs to tweak a few things. I give it a 2.5 in all.
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