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| - This restaurant is absolutely gorgeous, the service is excellent and the ambiance is quite romantic. We came here on Friday to celebrate our 2 year anniversary-we had a table looking out on the capital building as the snow was falling...it was beautiful. The other guests in the restaurant were an ecclectic mix-an odd combination of Wisconsin insurance executives types with their much younger wives, Portlandia extras and university professors trying to impressive their out of town guests and there was even one guy who looked like he walked off a farm (maybe he was bringing stuff to the kitchen)-I guess that's a nice/interesting mix?!? For such a fancy place- there is no dress code, which is absolutely AWESOME! The website even says to wear what you're comfortable in.
The restaurant printed out special menus that congratulated us on our annivesary and we were met with little glasses of champagne when we sat down-how cool was that!!! Our server, Frank, was great-very informative, made you feel like you weren't in the wrong place for not knowing what "pasta ripiegato" is exactly....and he wasn't overbearing. I was in awe of his knowledge on literally everything on the menu. I really enjoyed having him as our waiter!
We ordered a first and second course to share and then ordered our own entrees. The first course, octopus was not outstanding in any way-it was squeeky (I know, I know, it's supposed to be that way) and tasted of olive oil and lemon with some potatoes thrown in. I also felt like the menu should say that the dish was cold-which it did not! The pasta ripiegato (I'm glad I asked what it was) was delicious and it was like nothing I have had before. It was creamy from the cheese and squash and tart from cherries-my favorite thing on the menu!
For our main course, I ordered the John Dorry fish and my husband ordered a grass fed steak....my husband was SO happy with his order and mine left me wanting for more....it was just plain too small and you could tell the potatoes had been sitting on the plate and were reheated when the fish was ready. I'm sorry but for those prices that is unacceptable! I was very underwhelmed by my dish.
At the end of our meal, my husband got a cheese platter, which was absolutely outstanding!!! I ordered a flourless chocolate cake that had very little taste and one bite of strawberry ice cream. Again, it left me wanting more.
The actual (for real this time) end of our meal was some little complimentary bits and bobs from the kitchen-some excellent caramel popcorn and little candies-that was a nice touch!
Everything about this reastaurant was a great experience for my husband but I was not pleased with my dishes-they were either flavorless or too small...or you could tell they had been prepared hours in advance. However, this reastaurant does have something special going on and the attention to detail and non pretentious manner was appreciated. I'm still deciding on whether or not I would come again, but I did enjoy myself while there!!
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