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| - Love that there's a new dining option in the area and hope they are here to stay. I might have given them 4 stars if it weren't for the fact that they need to work out some service kinks. We went there to celebrate my husband's bday. When I made the reservations I stated this in the comments along with the fact that we would have a 1.5yr old with us and would need a high chair. However, we were seated in a raised booth and their was no high chair ... just a booster seat. We had to hold on to the babies legs to make sure she didn't slip off. No one mentioned the birthday, so I made sure to mention it to the waiter. The food is good. We had the chipotle clams, charred romaine and lemon garlic prawns to start. Everyone thought they were quite tasty. The rack of lamb was cooked perfectly. The lobster risotto was good, but very rich. Another guest had the the seafood pasta and she seemed to enjoy it. Two of us had the lobster ravioli. It is not a traditional ravioli. It is more like a sheet of pappardelle pasta wrap around a "slab" of ricotta. Because there was so little pasta, I would say it was closer to gnudi than a ravioli. The description says it was accompanied by a spicy cream sauce, but we didn't taste anything spicy at all. It was good, but a disappointment because we were expecting the taste of more pasta. Desserts were a chocolate cake, carrot cake and the apple puff pastry. The carrot cake was the best. The apple puff pastry was our least favorite. The pastry was good, but the apples were sliced too thinly rendering them almost dry and their wasn't enough sauce to offset that. We also didn't care for the cheese that it was garnished with.
Back to the service. They really need to get there act together. You could tell our waiter was pretty "green". He was very polite and he was trying really hard, but he would continually forget things. He asked if we needed more bread and then forgot to bring it. Someone asked for a cocktail and he forgot that too. Food came up rather slowly too. It was a Monday and the restaurant was maybe half full, so we couldn't figure out what the problem was. We sat at a table facing the open kitchen and we think some orders were getting mixed up and servers were picking up orders that were supposed to go to other tables. Lastly, as I said it was my husband's birthday. There was no complimentary dessert! We even sang "Happy Birthday", so it was like they didn't know. Anyone hope they work out the service issues. We would love to see them succeed.
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