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| - I wouldn't bother with this place. While the food was good, the menu lacks flexibility, the Peking duck is not served traditionally, and the service in general was not great - all of which are inexcusable given the price point. The only truly redeeming quality is that the Peking duck was served with pancakes (which I prefer over steamed buns).
Why is the Peking duck only available as part of a full-table 2-course meal at $74pp?? There were three of us, so we had to get three appetizers in addition to two other mains (the duck counts as one of the mains). I would rather have gone à la carte and ordered more mains. I was also surprised they don't offer any other Peking duck courses. No lettuce wraps, not even a simple sauté.
Also, our waiter kept insisting on picking the menu instead of us choosing. I really hated that; it was super pushy and made us feel uncomfortable. Either make it a set menu without choices, or let us do the choosing!
Peking duck was tableside service but not cut traditionally; only a few pieces were done skin-only, with the vast majority being just a bit of skin and tons of meat. At the price they're asking, it's totally inexcusable.
And portion sizes were tiny. Sea bass was four small cuts; the lamb entrée came on a dish that was the size of one of my hands. I don't factor value much into my ratings, but for $222 it's impossible not to expect way more.
Service-wise, we had multiple waiters and busboys - which normally wouldn't be a bad thing except they were completely uncoordinated, so they would bother us over and over again about the same things. For example at least 4 different staff asked us if we wanted another bottle of wine, but we had already ordered with the first person who asked us. Repeat the above for if we were ready to order, if we're ready for mains, if we want fresh sharing plates, etc. etc. It just got old.
Finally - not a fan of the lighting changes and the moving ceiling sculpture thingy. It was distracting and definitely detracted from the overall experience.
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