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I've been here a few times now and each time the menu leaves me wanting more for the money Im plunking down. More often than not, the dishes are not that great.
First off...the menu. I know its really trendy now for "gastropubs" to make these insanely complicated takes on traditional food, like a burger, but it really really shouldn't take me 20mins to read the menu, trying to figure out JUST what it is I am ordering.
Its in english and yet I feel like its in Greek or something. Maybe Im just stupid, but the dishes seem more complicated than they need to be; overwrought, contrived, and strained.
The actual food, after all that energy spent on writing a menu with too many descriptions, is bland and quite uninteresting. The burgers I've had there are not very flavorful, the salads boring. The 2 things I've really liked there were the Pig's head, and the frites, with garlic aioli. Both are done very well and deserve the $$$ they ask for. Everything else, meh.
I give a point to the wait staff though. They are nice and very attentive, and I can imagine its not easy working at a restaurant where you may need to explain the entire menu to each and every customer.
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