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| - As several others have indicated, it appears like the restaurant chooses to offer every dish known to man. The menu itself is quite large and when your server completes his dissertation on specials, it's way over the top. You are left to believe you will be paying over $20 for an entre that was very recently frozen. We started with the flaming sausage which looked impressive flamed at your table, but unfortunately very cold in the middle, dry and old tasting.
My friend ordered one of the specials, shrimp in a piri piri sauce; the sauce was excellent, but the shrimp were not fresh, likely frozen and way over cooked. There was a good chance it could have been dribbled. I ordered the short ribs and was pleased, but the vegetables were overcooked and mushy and the rice barely warm.
I had read that the sorbet was very good here and uniquely presented. In theory, this is accurate as their sorbet is served using the shell/skin of the fruit as the dish. So, for dessert I tried the watermelon sorbet served in the outer section of the watermelon which ended up providing the perfect ending to a poor dinner. It was so frozen we couldn't even cut it. We chatted for 10-15 minutes and tried again only to find it still as hard as a rock. When I tried to force the spoon in to break off a piece, it went flying toward a table beside us and would have landed there if my friend didn't catch it. It did give us a good laugh, but the sorbet may still be sitting there.
The bread was superb and the highlight of the meal - crusty and fresh on the inside; some tables were offered additional bread, but somehow we were missed. I think if I was to ever return here, it would be for the bread and a bowl of soup. The service, while pleasant, was not very personable and after taking our order, we didn't see much of our server until he presented our bill.
Overall, we are not very difficult people to please in a restaurant and I found that this may have been the shortest amount of time we have ever spent dining out. The food is way overpriced even taking into account the outstanding bread and there are too many other good options in the metropolitan area.
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