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| - My husband and I had been wanting to try this place forever and for whatever reason it just kept getting put on the back burner. So when my husband surprised me this week, for my birthday, I was so excited to finally try American Fish. As we were brought to ourtable, The hostess wished me a happy birthday, which is always a nice touch. I really did love the ambience of this place. Really beautiful and elegantly done. It was busy, but not overly loud. Cocktails are ordered from an IPad, and they do have a lot to choose from. I opted for a Singapore Sling (since there were absolutely no vodka based drinks to be found), and my husband went with The Life Is Beautiful. The drinks were good and my husband had 2.
They did have a chef's tasting menu which looked promising, but the waitress said it wasn't available tonight. On her own accord she did go and check with the chef and he said that if we wanted the tasting menu he would do it for us since it was my birthday. Another birthday kudo! We decided that we wanted to order of the menu so we could try a variety of things.
Since we are raw seafood lovers we started with a few clams. I also got the signature tuna tartar. It looked so yummy. I was so disappointed when my first bite was all sesame oil. Why???? Too overpowering for delicate tuna! Unfortunately, I wouldn't know if it was high grade tuna or not. My husband's scallop and fois gras appetizer was the best dish of the night. For entrees my husband got the salmon. It was fine, just overpriced. I was swayed by the lobster pot pie. It was beautifully presented, but lacked in deliciousness. I wanted to "mmmm" in every bite and instead I had rubbery lobster. I could've enjoyed the same taste at Red Lobster for a whole lot less money. We didn't do dessert. At that point we were a bit ho-hum about the whole meal. Overall, the food was "fine", but did not meet my high expectations that should come with Michael Mina's name. Sadly, I must give it three stars.
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