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| - This is classy af, pricey, special occasion dining. We all thought it was a good choice. Although the portion sizes were pretty miniscule, even for fine dining, the attentive service and elegant atmosphere made up for it in my opinion. I like the way that family style/sharing is highly encouraged too.
The wine list is the longest I've ever seen! You can order by the glass as well. Just for fun, the most expensive bottle is $120K, so I'm coming back for it when I win Powerball tonight.
We decided to order a variety of dishes, including the calamari, scallops, mascarpone and guanciale mashed potatoes, gnocchi with gorgonzola, arugula and figs, anolini with lobster and tarragon, spaghetti al frute di mare, short rib ravioli, and caprese salad.
Standouts for me included the calamari (lightly fried, with bell peppers, a unique version as compared to your usual deep-fried finger food), the mashed potatoes (incredible, and served with a poached egg on top), the ravioli, and the caprese salad (a unique, deconstructed version with fresh-pulled, delicious mozzarella and roasted tomatoes on the vine). I also really liked the spaghetti, which was full of huge, delicious, shrimp. The portions were very small for the prices, but we tried a little of everything, the dishes were well-executed, and that's fine dining for you!
The service here was top-notch. At times, we had fleets of servers coming to our table and they anticipated our needs and requests throughout the whole dinner.
One more thing that made it a fun dinner was that we were seated directly behind the huge bull statue near the entrance, and the bull was completely, generously, and graphically anatomically correct, which we thought was hilarious (especially after several glasses of wine). I couldn't look to the right side of my table without a peripheral view of balls in my face. Makes for some good photo ops.
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