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| - I have to say I was excited to finally get a chance to dine here. I had read such wonderful things on here about it! Myself and my sister and aunt met there for dinner on my aunts birthday. we looked over the menu and had trouble deciding what to have it all sounded wonderful. My sister and aunt ordered a glass of wine and I ordered the french press coffee -the coffee was wonderful! They ordered a bottle of red that needed to be decanted, and the decanter they used was incredibly awkward to pour while sitting at the table.I decided on the escargot, the salad and the French onion soup. My sister had the mussels appetizer and duck confit and my aunt ordered the escargot and the duck.
I have never been so disappointed in a meal in my life. The escargot was delivered and looked wonderful with the little puff pastry tops - and had absolutely zero flavor! I will give them that they were tender as they are supposed to be, but there was nothing but a greasy flavor to them and the puff pastry had a stale flavor to it. My sister's mussels tasted wonderful for the first 2 - the rest smelled horrible and tasted worse! not to mention the 2 empty shells and 3 unopened shells that had been served to her. She talked to the waiter and he took the three back with very little being said and brought back 3 more that smelled just as bad and we told him to just take the plate back. We thought it was a little strange that the waiter made very little comments and then the main course was brought out. My salad was fairly bland, the fried goat cheese topping was too thick and not warm and gooey all the way thru and the walnuts were fairly bland. The duck confit was fantastic - perfectly crisp skin and a fantastic flavor though with a wonderful mix of veggies and the scarlett runner beans gave it an edge - mixing a warm earthy flavour to go with the duck. We placed our order for desert - the vanilla soufflé with orange sauce. It was totally underwhelming - from the burned, chewy top that when cut and the sauce placed inside the soufflé disintegrated - it became a shell. The vanilla used in the dessert tasted like the artificial kind, and the same with the overly sweet and extremely runny orange creme freshe that it was served with. The waiter did see our disappointment at the meal but did not acknowledge it. At the end of the dinner service, when chef came out, he visited all the other tables in the restaurant - it is small, there were only 2 other tables seated. He would sort of glance our way and seemed uncomfortable that we were still there. (I know what restaurant etiquette is, I was dining with 2 accomplished chefs, one had owned her own restaurant for years) When we got the bill, the mussels were still on the bill - they did not charge us for the dessert.
I wouldn't mind the total for the bill - with wine it was @ 180.00 with tip - but for the disappointing meal we were served, I do not find this a place I could recommend.
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