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| - My boyfriend and I try to get out for a "nice" dinner about once a month, and had yet to try this joint. It's a stones throw from our home and looks fabulous from the outside. It didn't disappoint.
We snagged the very last open two-top at about 9 PM on a Tuesday night (but there were a few large groups having parties that might have made it tougher than usual) with no waiting and pretty quickly fell in love with the decor. Rough brick walls toss the low light around in pretty ways and there are some decent Burtynsky imitations on the walls (which I mean in the most affectionate way possible.)
Both veterans of the service industry, we noted that our server took a bit to come and get our drink order, but he was positively slammed and from the moment we were sort of "officially" under his care, service was shockingly consistent, fast, professional, and kind for the amount of pressure they were under.
The menu suffers from having almost too MANY things we wanted to try, furthering the dilemma were a number of delicious sounding specials. My boyfriend had a perfect piece of salmon, while I opted to go with the slightly less expensive 8 oz. steak and frites (half potato, half yam, nice touch) that were cooked to perfection (a perfect rare) so that I could have a ricotta/butternut squash/walnut/brown butter ravioli appetizer special that was legitimately special.
I have to reiterate that the speed and perfection at which things came out of the little kitchen was really admirable. Everything came out at that perfect 10-20-10 ratio and was piping hot.
We had decided before we left we'd become monthly regulars.
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