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The scallop appetizer: 4/5. The spices were strong, but very delicious with a honey base. If you like the natural light flavor of scallops, you may not care for this. Small serving of two scallops.
Medjook dates appetizer: 5/5. Incredible, but tiny serving. 3 dates.
Fish special dinner: 5/5. Great risotto, fish, etc. Good sized entree.
Hangar steak dinner: 4.5/5. The cut was a TAD chewy, if I am going to be very picky, but I ate every bite and enjoyed it. At $24, I feel it was a fair price for the size and quality (big cut) I received.
Apple cobbler dessert: 1/5. It was moderately covered in sea salt. While I can appreciate the combination of sweet and salty that is the fad these days, the salt was overpowering on this dessert. Perhaps if it was lightly salted, but this was more than a dash. It was the only "miss" of the night.
Molten chocolate cake with fig ice cream dessert: 5/5. If you love molten chocolate, you'll like this, and the house specialty fig ice cream is awesome. Portion size is small, this is probably not a dessert to split.
Ambiance including dining room, patio, and restrooms: 3/5. It was OK, but considering the prices should have been one step up in "class". For example, stall walls in men's room had a little graffiti on them. Dial antibacterial soap in its plastic grocery store jug. We ate inside, the patio tables and chairs didn't look overly appealing/comfortable.
The two of us left out the door at about $120 including 20% tip.
I struggled, 4 stars or 5? Overall it deserves 4.5 stars. We'll be back - the food was amazing enough to cover for the minor misses in other areas.
5/15/13: I came back to this review after really thinking it through more carefully, and after hitting up a bunch of restaurants while on vacation in comparison. I still feel the FF is an excellent restaurant but I just can't justify 5 stars. It's a solid 4 star experience -- if they can improve the tiny app portion sizes, take the decor slightly upscale, and perhaps tweak that apple cobbler I'd give the star back. (Or leave the apps tiny, but make them $5-6 instead of $9-10. It's just not acceptable that one person would need to buy two apps for about $20 to get that 'slightly satisfied' feeling that an appetizer is supposed to bring.)
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