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| - The bf and I went to celebrate our 7-yr anniversary with dinner @ Parallax. We had tried to come here on several other occasions, but never made the reservation with enough time in advance to get a decent time. 1. Make your reservation for this place in advance if you want to eat at a "normal" dinner hour.
We were seated promptly and the host/hostess was very friendly. Had a table in the main dining room -- let me tell ya, these tables are close together. I hope your neighbors at the table next to you are better than ours (more to come below).
Food: We had the shrimp yakitori salad and white tuna sashimi for appetizers. Both were very delicious. The sashimi was a little thin-sliced compared to some near-by sushi competitors. But the flavors were all great. The shrimp on the salad was perfectly grilled and seasoned. For entrees, I had the scallops, which were PERFECT! So easy to over-do scallops, but they were perfectly "melt-in-your-mouth" on my entree. The bf had the seafood stew, which came in a super yummy broth. The only trouble with this dish is that the scallops and the shrimp sitting in the broth will inevitably over-cook while sitting in the hot broth. Not sure how they can remedy this. For desert we had the passion fruit cheesecake, which was ok.
Service: Very courteous, but very slow. We didn't mind too much, as we were happily chatting. But our neighbors were rather upset, complained to the manager, got free champagne as an apology from the restaurant. Then they continued to complain about their appetizers (she wanted "sauce" on her California roll). Finally, in all their upset-ness, they started flailing their arms around, knocked over their champagne, spilling it all over me, my legs/shoes, my dress, and my coat. The manager promptly came over, took my coat to wipe down, brought me napkins, offered to pay for the dry cleaning bill. He then asked me, "Can I get you another drink?" I was happy with their response and gladly accepted the drink... the only bummer was when I found they actually charged me for the drink at the end of the night. hmm...
Regardless, food was very good. We will likely go back.. on some night when we aren't in any rush.
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Explanation of my rating system -
5*: Epitome of something, the best I've had, would LOVE to go back
4*: Great food and happy to go back regularly, but not the best of the category
3*: Food is fine. I may spontaneously decide to go there based on convenience. But no need to go back either.
2*: If you insist, I guess I'll come along. I'll find something to eat. But I wouldn't have picked it.
1*: No plans to come back. I'll try to talk companions out of going.
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