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| - So we ate here the other night and overall it was definitely a good experience.
Going to a restaurant like this, I think most people have some kind of basic expectations and for the most part, mine were met.
First of all, we were late for our reservation and there was no issue with it whatsoever.
We arrived and were seated 2 minutes later. The service is excellent from the ladies out front, to the waiters and bus boys. The inside is lively and trendy and it just has that fun atmosphere when you can sit for a long time, drink and hang out.
Of everything we ordered, the beet salad and my beef wellington were the standout items. In fact the beef welly was amazing. Toffee pudding? Amazing. Fingerling potatoes? not amazing. Fried green beans? Not amazing. The french coffee with chocolate spoons? - Very awesome. Lick-the-spoon-clean awesome.
You even get to see the Hell's Kitchen winner Chef Christina doing her thing.
What I don't get is how a restaurant of this quality can't throw together a vegetarian meal on the fly. Yes yes i know, steak house, vegetarian, mind blown, i get it.
If this was applebees and they told me they can't do sushi? Fine, my expectations are low to begin with. When you're going to a place with a chef that can cook while being called a donkey and a muppet on national television, I expect them to be able to throw together a decent vegetarian dish. The vegetarian risotto that my gf received was basically not great. I tried it. It was left there half eaten. I've been to very few high end restaurants that couldn't do a good alternative for the non meat eaters.
The meats that came out were amazing. The non meat stuff was just alright.
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