I checked into the hotel on a Tuesday night for a conference that started the next day. It was 8pm and I was hungry so decided to check out the hotel's main restaurant. Having been to several great farm-to-table restaurants in northern VA and in Texas, I decided to try it out. I ordered the pork shank and the carolina rice grits (both recommended as most popular items on the menu) with a gin cocktail. The cocktail was pretty good, but the food was a major disappointment. The pork came in this sticky brown sauce sprinkled with sesame seeds (sorry "benne seeds"). The sauce was tasteless except for an over abundance of salt. I couldn't have them refill my water glass fast enough - it was that salty. The "grits" were bizarre. White rice similar to an overcooked watery risotto with white cheese (which you couldn't taste in the dish) covered with a poached egg (white as well) and what I suspect to be a drizzle of olive oil or maybe it was the melted fat from the cheese? It's kind to say the dish looked less appetizing than the menu made it sound. Unlike the pork, the rice was severely under seasoned, and the texture of the entire dish was mushy (think really mushy rice pudding). After tax and tip, I paid about $50 for one person and I wished I went to Coco & the Director for a hamburger instead. Considering the plethora of other solid 4 star restaurants within 1-2 block radius of the hotel, it really is amazing this place can charge as much as it does with the food it produces and remain in business. For the signature restaurant in a Marriott hotel, this was a major disappointment.