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| - While eating here, I recalled a moment from the movie "Apocalypse Now" where the character, Chef laments about beautiful food being utterly cooked to death.
His woeful monologue went like this:
"They lined us all up in front of a hundred yards of prime rib --
magnificent meat, beautifully marbled.. Then they started
throwing it in these big cauldrons, all of it -- boiling.
I looked in, an' it was turning gray. I couldn't f**king believe
that one."
In my case, it wasn't just the prime rib, but the crab, mussels, shrimp, oysters, fish, scallops, etc. Either way, I couldn't believe it either, Chef....couldn't effing believe it.
I can't help but feel that the chefs here must feel the exact same way, bearing witness to the defilement of gorgeous seafood. Much of it tastes as if it has been over-boiled, over-frozen, and over-neglected, rendering 99% of it inedible, useless rubber. Trust me, no amount of fried batter, cream, butter, or cocktail sauce can fix this mess. Even the desserts were off...even the gelato....how do you mess up gelato?!
I hate wasting food. I hate remembering traumatic war movies. I hate overpaying for meals. I don't not like things. I absolutely hate it when people quote movies because they are far too inarticulate/original to string together their own thoughts to express themselves, but the food here was so awful that it drove me to do all of the above.
The only redeeming factors are the nice servers...but that's pretty much it.
Worst $100 me and my friend have ever spent on food. Got sick later on in the night and absolutely wish I could get my money back.
Never ever again. Ever.
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