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| - I've had some great business lunches here, but I have to say I was incredibly underwhelmed this last visit. I took my fiancee and a friend in from out of town there.
Let's talk food: Since my fiancee and I usually each order an entree and switch halfway through dinner, for the first time ever, I ordered something other than a steak. I got the crab cakes and he got a T-bone. The steak was good - cooked right, tasted as expected, but to me, wasn't a $47 steak. That's the price I would expect of an exceptional steak. Then there were the $43 crab cakes. When I first got them I was disappointed because there was so much creamy sauce on the plate and I am kind of a crab cake purist: lump crab meat, minimal filling, a little lemon and seafood seasoning. After a few bites of really dry, not so tasty crab cakes I realized what the sauce was there for. We left one whole crab cake on the plate after pushing food around and decided to just finish the steak and leave it alone. I decided that I knew better of this restaurant and that i wanted to finish off dinner on a positive note. I decided to order dessert to erase the crab cake incident from memory. I ordered an apple crisp, which was barely better than the crab cake. Bland soggy crust, overcooked apples, no "crisp" or topping other than the ice cream... I had three bites and didn't eat any more of that despite being hungry.
Then there was the service: The waiter we had wasn't outright rude, but he definitely was not nice, kind or gracious, and it appeared that he had a bit of an attitude with our out of town guest who happened to be foreign (but speaks English). He never once asked about the food. Leaving half your dinner and 90% of your dessert warrants at least a "Was everything ok?" which we definitely did not get.
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