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| - Great front of house/table service and romantic setting, but unfortunately found the food to be mediocre. There was lots of veining in our foie gras appetizer, which became all the more apparent when it's in such a small piece to begin with (though the tiny portions don't come as a surprise, so no real complaints for that part). Serving the foie atop the cornbread was nice to soak up the delicious foie oil, but it made the cornbread crumble so much that basically became a paste. There was a piece of what I think was the pistachio praline, but instead of snapping crisply, it was like chewing an old, semi-melted piece of caramel that was difficult to swallow.
The sturgeon/esturgeon was pleasantly smoked, and the black radish was a nice, acidic contrast, but the bacon linguine fell flat - no particular standout about that pasta. The halibut/fletan was tasty and moist, but the singular razor clam was tiny, and the 1" potato cut into three medallions the size of dimes was hardly enough to serve as starch.
I would judge differently if Auberge was any of the other O&B restaurants - but at $50 per entree, my expectations were not met.
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