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| - I had a heavenly experience at Joe Beef a few months prior to coming to Liverpool House. I wanted to take my friends visiting from out of town to Joe Beef, but we couldn't manage a reservation, so I figured Liverpool House would do.
We got the horse tartar as an appetizer, and for mains, the scallops, rabbit and duck dishes (I don't remember their full names). I wanted to order the horse steak but they didn't have it that day. I had loved the horse tartar at Joe Beef, and I loved it too at Liverpool House. The scallops and duck were good, but the rabbit was a little meh. All three dishes had a good amount of delicious (but very heavy) sauce. No one brought us bread voluntarily but I asked for it and got it. Bread is a great vehicle for sauce.
While the food was good (though not spectacular), my experience was tainted by the service and atmosphere. And despite waitstaff constantly walking around the restaurant, they weren't particularly attentive and it was hard to get service most of the time. But what was the most annoying was the volume. We were seated at the table closest to the kitchen, which is also next to the bar. First, the kitchen is loud. Second, one of the staff at the bar was drying or polishing a seemingly never ending supply of cutlery in a way that produced a lot of noise, of cutlery hitting each other. I can deal with loud chatter, but the sharp clanking of cutlery was really, really unpleasant and lasted for about 30-40 minutes.
Maybe I had unrealistic expectations for this place by thinking it would match Joe Beef even in service, maybe things would have been better if I had been seated elsewhere. But I left disappointed, and with a hole in my wallet.
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