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| - i so wanted this to be a GREAT restaurant......such a cool location, neat interior, but food, just OK.......yeah, i get the relaxed, casual vibe but a hostess waltzing around the diningroom in black flip-flop......seemed like she stopped in from the pool to seat a few people........servers are friendly but a bit unpolished and untrained. they want to help, but just don't know what to do. and what's with the "bananarama doo-rags" in al lthe girls' hair?
decor is snazzy, comfortable and current......the menu feels a bit confused. is it home-stlye comfort or upscale hip? i don't know, i don't think that the kitchen knew.
cocktails were great......had a couple of rounds. for apps we had the rock shrimp ceviche and the chacutterie (sp?) board. the ceviche was served with flour tortilla chips, yuck, and the ceviche lacked any bit of acidity, despite the lime wedge garnish. i wouldn't order this again. the chacutterie board/plate was large with a wide variety of house cured meats....many of which were lack-lustre and seemed to be made by a meat curing trainee that hadn't quite figured it out yet. the liver pate was delicious, the other stuff- mortadella (not even close to being), some terrible pork belly that seemed like boiled bacon sans the smoke and an "almost" proscuitto were gross, but the knockwurst....HEAVEN!!! so delicious, i could have eaten plates of this!!!
our salads were a golden beet salad.......sounded good but disappointing! the beets were buried in a heavy layer of green weeds with sprinkles of tarragon topped with a smoked cheese of some sort. no acidity to balance the dish, just a bunch of mish-mash ingredients thrown into a weird shaped bowl a la 1999. one slice of wonderful bread was given with cocktails, why? before i even had a chance to ask for a second slice with our salads, our butter, plates and silverware were scooped up.
for dinner we had the duck squared and the city chicken. i was confused by both. the carrot mash was delicious but the city chicken meat seemed over fried until hard and dry.
the duck squared was duck confit, a breast wrapped in bacon and thigh with leg served with some foamy carrot juice and traces of some sauce a feta cabbage strudel (which was the highlight of this dish) and beets. both entrees had the makings of a great dinner but never got there. homestyle seemed to be trumped by highbrow thoughts trumped by homestyle......food was good, but NOT great, nothing memorable! the highlight of the entire meal was dessert, even thought i really didn't want anything, i was talked into it and glad that i was!!!
the chile sugar cookie ice cream sandwich, WOW!!! they could make a mint on selling this out of a truck for sure!!! a slightly spicy sugar cookie filled with a sweet corn ice cream......what an original idea that came to fruition!!! i could have eaten bowls full of that ice cream!!! we also had a rhubarb cumble topped with chamomile ice cream......the crumble, meh, not so good, but that chamomile ice cream, to die for!!!!!
the real star of the night was the person responsible for the house made ice creams!!!!!! i think i would come here for drinks and dessert and skip the stuff in the middle........don't lose the ice cream "chef"----they're genius!!!
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