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| - Friday night Jan 22, approximately 7pm, we were a group of 4. Maybe 7 couples were seated in the restaurant, it's a cute place.
Nice atmosphere but that's about it. The wine is overpriced for 5 oz glasses but they do seem to free pour and provide samples. I was given a vague description of the Chablis when asked ("fresh and crispy"). At the price point and it being a wine bar, the servers should be well versed in their basic wine menu.
We ordered the cheese plate to start which served a group of four reasonably. It came with two small flatbread crackers and grapes that were not fresh at all, it was the middle of winter but I wouldn't have plated that. Again, it's the price point. The server could not tell us about all of the cheeses in detail. At one point he said "this is a Dutch, um, I can't remember..." and did not elaborate. The staff just seemed indifferent and only partially knowledgable of the menu.
Main: My husband and I had a beet and goat cheese salad which was over dressed so it was soggy at the bottom. We both had the scallops with chickpea ratatouille. The scallops were not seared well, they were stringy and smelled fishy. The chickpeas were hard, the diced tomatoes had too much juice and tasted as if it came from a can. Cooking chickpeas sufficiently and fresh tomatoes are not going to break the bank. My husband asked if they had bread to soak up the juice and the waitress said she'd see if they if baguette to bring over. He received two pieces of bread, no one else was given or offered any. My parents both had the the lamb, and while I cannot say how the lamb was, the potatoes had a ton of undercooked garlic in it with way too much butter. Needless to say the food was sub-par (amateur) and would have been at half the price, nonetheless $27 - $30 a meal. When we had finished, the empty plates (with bones) sat in front of us, my father ordered a coffee and finished it, and we received the dessert menus all the while the dishes were still there. Will never return.
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