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| - The short of it: The food is okay, but it's overpriced
The long of it: The atmosphere is lovely. The restaurant is well designed, beautiful, and has a very cool "vault" table. It's swanky, intimate, and impressive without being pretentious. We went to celebrate a birthday, and they stuffed 8 of us at a table really designed for 6. We were bumping elbows, but this restaurant isn't designed to host "larger" groups - so we took it in stride. Overall the service was okay, neither exceptional nor atrocious, although her timing was a little off (we actually had to ask the hostess to find our server so we could place our order).
A run down of the appetizers: the grilled spanish octopus was by far the best appetizer. Unique, inspired, and truly a delight. I would order it again. We also shared sweet vidalia onion soup (sweet and tasty), risotto with asparagus and morels (creamy, nicely seasoned), and the warm buffalo mozzarella salad (underwhelming).
Among the table for dinner we ordered the carbonara (better than average, but not "incredible"), the double boneless pork chop (beware, this is a large chop, but it was pretty tasty), ribeye steaks (BEWARE, this is a gigantic portion... even the men at the table couldn't finish the cut. It was definitely not worth the price, and truly didn't taste "special"), herb grilled chicken (just okay), and the diver scallops (wonderful, light and filling).
Overall impression... it was expensive for the the experience we had; the tastiest options were the grilled spanish octopus (14) and the diver scallops (28) - but at those prices, we would choose to eat elsewhere. There is nothing "wrong" with the restaurant, you will likely have a lovely time. But there are better values to be found, especially with all the wonderful restaurants in CLE.
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