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| - Greetings fellow yelpers! I've been on a bit of a hiatus from yelp due to my busy schedule. However, that doesn't mean that I haven't been eating excellent food for the past couple of months. So I am back to review some of the restaurants I've been to.
The wife decided we should check this joint out and thanks to all of you yelpers, we went for the cut of the week special. Its 3 courses and bottomless wine pairing. Pretty good deal for such a high end restaurant.
We started out with a salad that was disappointing. Iceberg lettuce, tomato, beet, and feta? cheese, and a vinagrette. The salad looked sloppily made and the beets were sliced into these very large chunks. The wife is a salad lover and she did not finish her plate. That says it all. Came with a pinot grigio.
The main course was Osso Bucco and it came with sides of haricot verts and polenta. I thought the Osso Bucco was very tender and flavorful, nice deep rich gravy to with it. Then the wife gave me a slice of her Osso Bucco. Tough, dry, lacking in flavor. Very disappointed that such a highly thought of restaurant could not cook two Osso Bucco the same way. I was going to give this restaurant a 4 star review but after tasting the wife's Osso Bucco, I docked it a star. The polenta was nice and creamy and the haricot verts were cooked just perfectly... crisp and clean flavor. Came with a french blend red.
For dessert we had a carrot cheesecake with a coconut lime sorbet on top..... perfect. Gave it a slight tartiness to go with the creamy cheesecake.
As I said, if I had only eaten my own meal I probably would have given it 4 stars but the wife's Osso Bucco was so over cooked that my wife is probably writing her review and giving this joint 2 stars.
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