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| - So I had no intention ending up here. I came to have dinner, but without reservation to the place around the corner we were SOL. Someone mentioned that R+D opened up, and that we should try it out. I wasn't impressed but the forced mystique of the modern speakeasy approach. By now I just wanted to sit down and have a drink.
10 minutes later I found myself at a low table, having a mixologist explaining how things were going to work and what I could expect. The evening had taken a turn for the better.
Ambiance.
I think it is absolutely beautiful up here. A minimalistic modern decor together with 2 mixologists mean a personal, even if slow, service. Wrongly I expected the clientele to follow suit, but anyone not-to-uncouth can get up here. The allure of exclusiveness is a false assumption.
Food&Drinks
The food comes from downstairs. The drinks are created in your vicinity by aficionados. It becomes what you came here for. If your poison is a solid quality drink that is tasty, interesting, and you are willing to pay for it - this is doubtlessly your place.
- Example: My drink was spicy from habanero in a "holy crappers batman, my eyelids are about to self-combust"-kind of way. But the adept mixologist swung by with some diluent, in my case a juice blend that was already in the drink, that adjusted the proportions for the guy (read me) that thought he could handle more heat than he could.
- Ps. the basic salad is the bomb.
Overall I really like it. I will not come here often, due to the fact that you pay more for experience than product, but I still really like it and I can see why some people might not like it. And I have a feeling that the people that put this together had that in mind. Better to please a few epicures that will keep visiting, and let those to whom this experience is not appealing to their own devices.
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