so close to being great it hurts. everything was great. awesome ambiance and decor, friendly service and incredible food. but notice how service was just friendly. attentiveness on part of the service staff was not there.
we first got some bread w/ some incredible honey truffle butter. honestly, this should be sold. so addictive w/ a great balance of flavors. for appetizer we decided to split the burrata w/ tomatoes and basil. unreal. the cheese was beautifully soft and the pesto vibrant. a tad bit more salt would be nice but still a fabulous dish.
for mains, she got a custom dish which was a linguini w/ beets and broccoli in a black truffle creme sauce and i got the lobster gnocchi. we both got white truffle shavings on our dishes. both of our dishes were freaking good. the lobster in my dish was cooked perfectly and the gnocchi was light and pillowy. the beets in her dish added a beautiful sweetness and texture w/ her pasta. both were stellar dishes.
what truly lacked in the restaurant was that we were practically forgotten about after we put in our order. we would go long periods of time where our wine glasses would be empty (we had gotten a nice spatlese). our waiter hardly checked in on us though he was incredibly friendly. we were perplexed with how attentive they were before we put our order in and how non-existent they were afterwards. we primarily decided not to have dessert due to this (that and we were pretty darn full). only this one busboy would notice that we were looking around waiting and then call someone over. i'll only dock one star because every other aspect of the restaurant was beautiful. the service could be an isolated incident and i'm pretty sure others probably did not experience what we did. if you're learned anything from this review, go to eat and enjoy some great food!