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| - I think this restaurant location is cursed. I ate there when it was Renegade Canteen under Robert McGrath and never enjoyed the heavily meat-centric menu. I returned last night with friends to check out the new experience and was even more disappointed. The food was okay at best. Ordered the beet salad which seemed to be more lettuce than anything else (thankfully the lettuce was a nice spring mix as opposed to iceburg or romaine), but lacked in beets (tasteless), dressing or character. I then had the short rib which for most Americans would not be a large enough portion, though I commend them for keeping it on the small side. My food was luke-warm and just blah. My friend had the baby back ribs which were dry and lacking sauce. The two other diners had the lobster pasta and said it was not bad, but nothing to write home about either.
On top of it all, our server was terrible. He forgot to bring the glass of wine my friend ordered to start, forgot about the appetizer we had ordered, brought a manhattan that my friend had ordered with extra cherries, with no cherries saying they had run out of cherries (come on, what bar runs out of cherries?), and kept referring to us as "guys" which we found annoying. My red wine arrived very warm - red wine should be served at about 65 degrees, not 80!
It is too bad this restaurant can't find the right owner/chef because the space is very nice and the location near my house, and there are no good restaurants in this part of town. There are better options out there. This place is trying to be something it can't deliver. I will not be back.
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