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| - Beautiful location in one of the high end malls in the new City Center. Little bit hard to find if you don't normally shop here. And I don't. Civil servant salary :(. But we made it and we made reservations in advance so no problems with our table.
Once placed at a table I think the floormanager thought it took too long before we got menu's and drinks because after some talking in a little microphone he brought the menu's himself. And bizarre: he really, really resembles Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory). And once you've seen it........
Our waiter showed up explaining the menu and taking the drink orders. To be honoust, we've missed most of the information. A high speed talk with way too much information about the specials.
We decided on half a portion of the salad of the day (spinach, bacon, egg, the promised blue cheese was hard to find), the lobster bisque, a Ahi Tuna Tartare and the Ribeye with bone. For sides just the sauteed mushrooms.
Portions are huge, but had a few dissapointments considering the price. Although we'resure the waitress spoke off different kinds of Preparing the meat (grilled, blackend, etc.) she didn't asked we would like the meat prepared. Looking at the meat of our neigbours we asked which cooking that was. Turned out to be rare. Just a little too pink for us so we asked the meat to be cooked medium. Can tell you, what we got was definitely way beyond medium. Almost welldone. And no,we didn't send it back. I know, we should have.
The mushrooms were perfectly cooked and huge. Like the portion. More than enough to satisfy four. The bisque was oke but both appetizers, the spinach salad and Ahi Tuna Tartare were flat. The salad being nothing special and the Tuna was way to cold discover any taste at all. I also don't understand the fried things (onions?) on the bottom.
Best experiences were the setting, despite the location, the services and the bread. Especially the latter was excellent.
Together with a glass of white and red we've paid $163 before tip.
NOTE: excuse any grammar and spelling mistakes. I'm no native speaker and keep having troubles with my Apple device that keeps trying to change the English words into proper Dutch words. Yes, you've guessed right. My first language.
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