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| - The setting is gorgeous but the food was awful--one of the worst meals we've had in a long time. Alarm bells began to ring when I ordered a house made ginger-ale--one of four house-made sodas on their cocktail list--and it arrived flat. It then took us ten minutes to flag the server down and another fifteen to get the drink back. Second go: not flat, but not particularly tasty either. Next worry: of the two breads in the bread basket, one was stale and the other had no salt in it.
We ordered the six course tasting meal. First course was salumi and cheese accompanied by various crackers and bread rounds. All the crackers were stale; the bread served with the pate tasted as though it had been toasted and oiled several days previous. We didn't finish the plate. Salad course was okay, although one of the salads (octopus, I think) was drowning in sweetish dressing. Third course pasta: I was served a pasta with Italian sausage and purslane, which was fine, except the purslane was very oily. My husband was given a gnocchi with some sort of cheese sauce; the gnocchi was heavy and the cheese sauce was like wallpaper paste.
At this point we considered leaving and hitting up a taco truck, but decided to tough it out since we were half way through. Fish course was almost inedible due to excessive saltiness, as was the final meat course: the pork dish I was given tasted like salt-pork that hadn't been rinsed and the green bean garnish was cold, while the rest of the dish was very hot. We left most of the food on the plates, and asked for the check, though we had a dessert course left. The server brought us the check and the desserts boxed up. They didn't survive the trip home, so can't comment on their quality.
The service was very amateurish. Some of the waiters had to read our course descriptions off a piece of paper. It often took ten-fifteen minutes for our plates to be cleared. My husband had the wine pairing; glasses arrived after their course, or way before. None of this would have bothered us if the food had been good.
But it wasn't. We left disappointed and hungry.
I don't usually post negative reviews, but the meal was so disappointing, and the other yelp reviews are so positive, that I felt our an opposing view was warranted. Perhaps they were having an off night and our experience was unusual. I hope so. The setting is wonderful and I certainly applaud their farm to table mission.
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