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| - The 3 is a 3.5, first off.
I've been here twice. I was pleased with both experiences.
While the food is excellent, the fatal flaw at Momofoku is the service. Being a bartender at a high-volume, fast-paced downtown restaurant, I believe I'm fairly empathetic to my server when eating out. However, it drives me absolutely bonkers how your server at Momofoku will avoid you for 7-10 minutes when you first walk in. I suppose their theory is that by then, they can swing by, greet you, and take a full food and drink order in one swoop. This is garbage. I usually want to take some time browsing my menu for food choices, and taking it all in. However, I have my drink order ready to go within a minute of sitting down. Come take the order so I at least have something to sip on while I determine what I'm eating.
Overall the service is 'just meh'. Impersonal and inattentive. I found this surprising, because before Momofoku opened, we lost alot of the servers at my restaurant to go train for Momofoku. I stayed in touch with these friends of course, and the service training regimen at Momo is intense and thorough, they said. Obviously the training isn't quite right, because the service isn't tight.
We always started with the pork buns, which are authentic, and absolutely delicious with a squeeze of Sriracha. People are complaining that they are overpriced, but thats up you to decide. It was $11 for two moderate-sized buns, which technically isn't a ton of volume, but I think the quality of this pork is the reason for the pricing. Like I said, I ordered them again on my second visit.
The first time I ordered the chilled spicy noodles (sichuan sausage, black bean, cashews). Delicious, and the cashews were an awesome touch. Bronwyn ordered a duck skin noodle (no longer on the menu) which was also delicious. It came with a big, crisp piece of skin sticking out of the middle like a flag (yum).
Second time, I got the chow mein (short rib, cheese). Almost better than the chilled spicy noodles, the flavour in this dish was huge, somewhat smokey. Plenty of rib meat too. Bronwyn got the smoked chicken ramen (garlic, miso, menma). This was also very tasty, and again, had a robust smoke-flavour (obviously).
Our other guest had the standard Momofoku ramen (both times, different guests ironically) and both said they enjoyed the dish.
All these dishes were massive, and in my opinion, well worth the price (12-15 per dish).
The beverage menu was pretty weak. Five bottled beers (one of which was canned Pabst...) and I believe 3 different wines. This area could use improvement, big time.
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