I love the idea and concept of this place. The decor and atmosphere is perfect for the concept. The food how ever did not hit it off for me as much as I expected from all the hype about this place and the chef. I'm not knocking on Johnny, I just had a different expectation from the hype.
The food was good, just a couple things kind of threw it off for me. I ordered the lime mint beef first, it was very good, the only thing was the beef didn't look like beef. The lighting in there was low so I didn't get a good look but it looked discolored, but it was good. Second we ordered the shu mai, it was ok. It was like any other shu mai I had before. The last thing we had was the spicy wonton, it was very good, the dipping sauces were really good and my only real complaint about this place is this wonton dish. If the would have stuffed more chicken filling in there so we could get more than just a small bit it would be great.
All in all, I would recommend this place to people if they were in the DT area for a starting place to get some drinks a a few dishes to start out the night.
I'm really interested in their new lunch menu they just started doing. Hope to check this place out for lunch sometime soon.