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| - Came here for Winterlicious lunch and was NOT impressed. First of all, we made a reservation but still had to wait about 20mins. It was cold and we had a large party so we awkwardly waited by the door and felt like we were in the way of everyone.
If the food was good, I would rate them higher despite the wait, but unfortunately, the food was poor to average.
Beet Carpaccio - Pretty good, probably the best thing I had there for the whole meal, slightly cooked beets which were not too soft topped with argula and shaved parmesan. Overall pretty nice.
Lamb shank - visually it looked pretty good but when you dig in the lamb was tough! Everyone who ordered this had a tough time eating it, needs to be cooked longer. The lamb shank came with chunky vegetables and roasted potatoes, all of which were SEVERELY UNDER-COOKED, the potatoes and veggies were hard still. How does a professional restaurant not know how to cook veggies and potatoes???? These under-cooked sides were also served with my friend's trout dish.
Trout - as mentioned before, served with under-cooked potatoes and vegetables and was overcooked, but has a nice caramelized layer so was not a complete fail.
Cheesecake - your average grocery store bakery cheesecake, nothing to write home about.
Overall, service was ok, the servers were prompt and polite, although I had ordered Risotto orginally as my main and they got me lamb shank, a person from our group had ordered the risotto as well, and he got his, and visually the lamb shank looked better than the risotto so I opted to keep the lamb shank (mistake). The risotto from what I saw and heard was average, a bit overcooked, and the seafood they promise in the description is very limited in the dish.
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