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| - We had the opportunity to dine at Le Mont for my belated birthday dinner. My birthday is always during winter restaurant week. This was my first restaurant week experience because for whatever reason, we never took advantage of it.
I made reservations via open table about a week in advance. My actual birthday (Friday) didn't have too many reservations left (only 9pm) so we decided on Sunday dinner here.
I am going to agree with other reviewers and say that you pay for the view. Food and service are okay, but for the hype and (regular) price of entrees, I just expected things to be better.
I ordered off of the restaurant week menu. Honestly, Le Mont had a good pre fixe compared to other places. I went with the stuffed sole. It was stuffed with crab and almonds. I got to choose soup or salad (salad) and a dessert (strawberry shortcake). The server assistant brought out bread for us. While appreciated, the bread was oddly very salty.. like pretzel salt. Thankfully the poppy seed bread made up for it. My salad was initially served with the wrong dressing and I had to send it back.
My boyfriend didn't care for the pre fixe menu ordered from regular dinner menu. He went with the duck. It is marinated In raspberry vinaigrette and cooked. afterwards more vinaigrette is placed on it. The dish was absolutely amazing and I highly recommend it. It put my stuffed sole to shame, lol.
The sides for our dishes were mashed potatoes and veggies (carrots, asparagus). The mashed potatoes were extremely dry, unseasoned and very bland (think instant mashed potato flakes and water!) It was disappointing. At first I thought they were just slacking since I was using a pre fixe menu, but my boyfriend $45 entrée was served with the same basic potatoes.
My strawberry shortcake was delicious. We also bought a bottle of wine.
While the view and duck entrée were amazing, everything else was pretty basic, including service. Don't get me wrong, she did an good job, but I guess I was just expecting to be "wow'd" more since its a fancier place. The hostess basically ran to seat us at our table instead of kindly asking us how we are doing or making sure we were even caught up with her. (ive been a hostess at chain restaurant and fancy wine bars so I know how to professionally greet & seat guests.. I just expected more courtesy I suppose)
overall the experience was fun, but for the price there are better places out there, especially on Grandview.
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