We decided to use our 2nd free seasonal tasting dinner for 2 here after having such a great dinner at American Fish. Both owned by Michael Mina and this one was really good too. Again thanks to our teammates for taking down the Yelpmazing race once again and thanks to Misti and MGM for such an awesome hook up!
Assuming the tasting would be kinda like Fiamma where it would be a set thing...the server informed us that they didn't have a seasonal menu anymore. So we could pick any 2 tapas, split a Seablue salad, filet mignon and sea bass for entrees and then we would figure out dessert later. Sounded a-ok to us!!
The naan that came with red pepper hummus, spicy hummus and a feta dip was a welcome surprise over the traditional bread/butter bowl. It was really hard to tear ourselves away from it realizing we had to pace ourselves if we didn't want to just box the entrees to go without taking a bite of it.
If they're letting us choose the tapas...OFCOURSE we're picking the most expensive ones!! The prawn cocktail "a la minute" was 5 perfect shrimp poached in ocean water on a bed of seaweed and ice. The poaching gave it a real nice tenderness to the prawns you normally don't get in a cocktail.
Next appetizer was the lobster fritter. 3 kinda corndoggy/kaboby deep fried pieces of lobster with bacon and an upscale mayonnaise type sauce on lettuce. I could've eaten at least 10 more. That good. Really!!
Seablue salad was nice and light. The serrano ham and radish gave it great flavor.
Entrees were great. To our surprise, we both preferred the filet mignon over the seabass. They also gave us 2 sides..crushed potatoes and steamed spinach. Totally unexpected!
So...much..food...what's the smallest dessert you have?? Profiteroles...rocky road ice cream in a chocolate crusted nut ball. WOW!
The seasonal menus were priced at $49 per person but we ended up getting almost $150 worth. The entrees still tasted great 2 days later :)
My only gripe is that this is listed as a "romantic" restaurant. I wholeheartedly disagree. Too loud, kinda cramped and the music fits group dining over couples.