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| - Our friends rave about this place so we met them on a recent Saturday evening for dinner and drinks.
We sat at a six-person high top in the bar... the atmosphere is amazing! The bar area is dimly lit and slightly trendy. We didn't check out the restaurant. We DID check out the clientele though... wow! Woman after woman after woman was barely dressed and left nothing to the imagination - including the hostess. Beautiful people add something exotic to an atmosphere and we enjoyed the floor show.
Our table shared several appetizers including Spicy Calamari, a Cheese and Olive plate and Grilled Brussels Sprouts. Everything was good but I won't wake up in the middle of the night craving something that only "Triv's" can supply me with.
The wine and beer selection was okay - we found a nice dry Petit Syrah that was acceptable to all of our party. We drank 2 bottles, it was red, it was dry, my husband drank it... it wasn't memorable.
I should mention here that I saw no hamburgers on the menu (I had no intentions of ordering a hamburger). Although the menu prices were pretty elevated we were sitting in a BAR; a bar at a high-top table; with our feet dangling beneath us. If I shut my eyes while sitting there I could have been any number of places -Outback Steakhouse, TGIFriday's. I'm not sure what all of the fuss is about.
I ordered a ribeye steak (RARE!) and my husband ordered some kind of seafood (perch?) I had mashed potatoes... ho hum. My steak, when I received it was LITERALLY an inch thick and dry and pinkish brown inside. I did not complain because I am certain that a steak that thin CANNOT be prepared rare unless they serve it raw (which actually would have been better.) How can an establishment that touts such great steaks on the menu serve such a thin, tasteless ribeye? I have come to the conclusion that you pay for atmosphere and the eye-candy here.
We were offered the dessert menu but declined because our friend had made a gluten-free mocha cream pie for our other friend's birthday... yikes! This amazing pie was THE BEST PART of our meal - and it wasn't prepared by the restaurant! It had a dense, black, buttery chocolate-cookie crumble crust that fell apart on the fork but stuck to my teeth. The deep chocolate-espresso ganache helped to hold the crust together just long enough to lift it from the plate and place on your tongue. An explosion of rich, thick, chewy, crumbled goodness was elevated by the milk chocolate fluff that sat on the top of this concoction. Our friend served it to us in a foil pie plate.
A fitting theme for our evening: looks can be deceiving.
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