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| - Maybe this place is great at brunch? Here for dinner and our experience did not match the high yelp rating in the slightest. Everything was just ill conceived.
A celeriac salad seemed different and adventurous, but turned out to be odd and disappointing. It was very heavy on the mustard and had too much dressing. Odder still was the decision to include a poached egg croquette. Having egg yolk exploding over what was already a too-wet salad just seemed bizarre. (If served with some toast, the egg croquette would have been a great idea.)
My main course was rabbit served in a mac cheese dish. I know, I was asking for trouble, but I got so much more than I deserved. The dish was headlined as "Braised Rabbit." Well, I'm sorry but this rabbit was not braised in the slightest. It was boiled in a béchamel sauce. Unfortunately, it wasn't boiled long enough for the "pasta shells" - which were really about the thickness of gnocchi - to cook through. But that's not the worst of it. The dish didn't include cheese within the béchamel. Instead it was actually capped with a very thick layer of Fontina cheese, like a french onion soup. Fontina is strong enough in small quantities. When plastered across the entire dish, no other ingredient even had a chance. For no apparent reason, this dish was also accompanied by some sort of meat croquette. "Micro greens" mentioned in the description turned out to be a tiny garnish rather than an ingredient.
My S.O. was similarly disappointed in her main (though her's looked better than mine). She had the pork belly. And yes, it too included a croquette.
Like the food, the music was similarly odd and seemed to be trying too hard. We literally listened to a full hour of atonal Hammond B3 solos. No, I'm not exaggerating. I had lots of time to think it through. Someone actually played it and thought it sounded good and someone else recorded it and didn't throw the tapes away, etc. Leading all the way to this restauranteur thinking "Say, I'll bet our diners would like to listen to a full hour of atonal Hammond B3 solos." I'm guessing the person who designed the menu also selected the music.
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