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| - I really wanted to like this place. I'd heard and read mixed reviews and now I see why. We ate here for their New Year's Eve 6 course menu... so they had 6 chances to recruit me as a new regular, but with each course we became more and more disappointed and annoyed.
My first impression was that the atmosphere was great; music was fun, people were friendly and overall it was really well designed. Everything was fine to start, I wasn't a huge fan of the amuse bouche, but nothing to hold a grudge over. What started the downward spiral was the waitress bringing our second course, literally right after bringing our first course. I don't like when anyone at a restaurant of this caliber says "I don't want to rush you, but here's your next course." Who wants to let their soup sit off to the side of the table while they eat the first course. That was pretty much the way the following courses went, down to bringing our check WITH the dessert.
I could go into lengthy detail about each course; including having to send back spare ribs (but the second one was really good) or the waitress and her lack of knowledge of the entire menu right down to telling us our dessert was peanut butter / chocolate when it was really peppermint / chocolate or that myself and others around us kept getting bumped into by waitstaff cause the seating was too close together ... but I'll save the time.
Ultimately, when I go out for a meal that's costing a table of two $200, I expect an experience. Bringing clean silverware with each course isn't asking a lot. Saying "Can you keep your fork for the next course, I know that's kinda weird" by our waitress is not what a meal at that price point should offer. Kitchen paper towels on the counter of the bathroom is not the impression I wanted to leave with, but that's what I got.
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