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| - After hearing countless rave reviews for Sel we finally had the opportunity to try it out when we had out-of-town visitors. There were 3 of us and we all had the 4 course prix fixe menu and our visitor only enjoyed one of the four courses - the salad. For our guest's first course, she chose a mushroom dish with goat cheese risotto. I thought it was good, but she didn't enjoy it at all. She and I both had the king crab for our second course. The menu did say that it would come served with fish roe and an asparagus puree, but when the dish was served, it had way too much roe and coupled with the crab and asparagus it tasted almost like spoiled fish tastes. We gave feedback to the server and he brought out ONE serving of the alternate second course, the duck confit ravioli which was better. The third course was the salad and that was fine. For the entree, I had the Wagyu hangar steak with a reduction sauce. The reduction tasted burnt and incredibly salty - so salty that that became the only thing I could taste in the dish. A Wagyu cut of meat should be very tender, but this hangar steak was tough and was the consistency of any hangar steak you could buy at the grocery store. Our guest had the Crispy Skin Sea Bass. Sea Bass we've had at other fine restaurants is very mild with almost no ocean flavor or harsh fishy taste. Unfortunately, the bass, the sauce, and all the accompaniments were so fishy tasting that she couldn't eat the meal. It was taken away from the table having only a few bites eaten. We gave feedback to our server at the end of each course and he seemed genuinely interested in hearing it. However when the bill came ($330 for three guests), there were no reductions, comps, or anything else taken off. My fiance went to the server and said we didn't think that was fair considering that our guest only enjoyed the salad course and for me, two of my four courses were not up to par. They brought the bill back, but it was exactly the same. $330. So we went to the manager and they reduced it by $60. Not a fair offering, in my opinion. Other restaurants of this caliber and price point would have taken back any unsatisfactory dishes and replaced them with something more suitable and then either reduced the bill or offered complimentary drinks or dessert or something. Not at Sel. It was a huge disappointment and there are many other restaurants in town that are much better.
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