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| - Let me start by saying that I dined here during restaurant week. While their menu is typically outside of my price-range, I had heard several rave reviews and thought it might be a great "special occassion" type of restaurant. As you can tell from the pictures, the interior is formal, yet comfortable. Bread was brought to our table (basic slices of cold white bread) and our waiter offered "there's some olive oil on the table if you want it." I guess I was expecting him to pour some on a plate and maybe added some cracked pepper or seasonings. For my appetizer, I selected the caesar salad. It was a basic salad, a decent portion size, and overall good. I was a bit confused when their menu differed from the posted restaurant week menu. My main dish was the salmon, which was pan seared and served with four small baby carrots and an herbed couscous. The fish portion was 4oz at most. The entree was good, but just simply nothing special. For a fine dining restaurant I expected a more unique selection of entrees, rather than a basic salmon and sides I could have prepared at home. Finally, for dessert I chose the NY Cheesecake with raspberry coulis. Dissappointing to say the least - it was good, but again, equivalent to what I would have expected to get in the grocery store and topped with a meager dribble of the raspberry sauce.
Overall it was an average meal. Restaurant week has potential to draw many new customers into Charlotte's restaurants, yet after this meal, I have no interest in returning and paying an even steeper price tag for a standard meal at Bonterra.
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