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| - It pains me to say it, but I have to downgrade this one. I was super excited to try the new menu, because I have loved chef Jamilka's take on each restaurant she's been at. This meal though, was not great. All in all, it's an expensive place to drink and an uncomfortable place to sit...so the food really needed to bring it up. But it just didn't.
I will say that I did enjoy the shrimp ceviche. It was fresh and light and not filled with a bunch of raw onion (as so many ceviches are). The plantain chips got a little soggy in the bowl with it and there weren't quite enough of them, but it was good overall.
The plantain canoe, though, was awful. Really awful. It was described as a sweet plantain, which led me to expect that it would be sweet and soft. This thing was a dry hard rock - texturally unappealing and not even a little sweet. The filling was actually pretty good, but the boat itself was the majority of the dish and was so bad that none of us enjoyed it even a little. Perhaps it is indeed authentic and was served how it's supposed to be, but we all thought it was dreadful. It was also on the small side for an entrée - it could have used a little something on the side to break it up a little.
In the end, I don't love it.
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