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| - Came to Verses during restaurant week (happening gourmand), was a little disappointed by the experience and truly expected better from a French restaurant at the Old Port.
We had a reservation for four people on a Saturday and basically got to try just about everything on the restaurant week menu. The atmosphere was nice, a lounge/bar area is at the entrance and over to the left side is the dining area. The maitre d and the wait staff wasn't all that warm and welcoming. There were only a few tables occupied so the slow service was dazzling, especially when we were finished and prepared to leave, we must have waited for someone to come and bring us the check for 20 minutes.
There are 2 sides of the restaurant menu, one is a 3 course for $27 menu and another is a 3 course for $37 menu. Some dishes requires an additional (+$) which is indicated next to the menu item.
For appetizer, we got the foie gras, tuna tataki, octopus with squid, and bison carpaccio. I had the tuna tataki and had a taste of all the other three, the tuna tataki sauce is slightly oily and blend for me, the cut is rather thick and the taste of tuna isn't so pronounced. I also had a strange white sauce on the plate, which tasted like paste. The octopus dish with potato is pretty savory and well made. Foie gras melts in your mouth but for some extra $$, although definitely not anywhere close to the best I've had. For the main dish, we got surf and turf (soft shell crab with short ribs), duck leg with couscous and lamb chops. I had the surf and turf, the dish wasn't so pretty on the plate but the soft shell crab tasted amazing, juicy tender and well seasoned, not over fried or oily. The short rib tasted okay, nothing extraordinary, tender but perhaps a little overdone on the sauce. The duck leg was quite a bit salty and the lamb chop, though prettily entertained on the plate, it was blend and the flavor did not match up to it. For the dessert portion, I had an AMAZING grapefruit sorbet. A swan was made out of sugar to sit on top of a triangular piece of sorbet (easily mistaken for a watermelon), some fresh grapefruit and a small piece of pastry on the side. The sorbet was refreshing, an intricate balance between the slight bitterness and sourness of the grapefruit along with its ultra smooth consistency. It was perfect for a fruit lover like me. The chocolate mousse with fancy gold flakes was pretty standard and the dessert sampler (also for extra $$) came with a variety of small size pastries. Also tasted quite standard.
All in all, it was an okay experience but definitely expected much more.
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