After eating here a few times I've decided that while this place is pretentious, the food is good. The place offers a very formal setting and assumes you are there for a long evening. For example, they don't give you the menus when you first sit down, you get to first contemplate what you want to drink. They offer some complimentary tasty bruschetta followed by some bread with balsamic vinegar a bit later. Between the starters and the main they offer a complimentary sorbet drizzled with champagne so you may clense your palette.
The portions are massive, the prices are not modest, but the food is very tasty. Everyone I've ate with there has been pleased. The dessert card at the end is silly, especially if they turn on the sirens.
Ah - the place also has live music - some poor guy by the window singing his heart out.