We went to the Revel section for lunch today. I came in at 1 pm when the place was clearing out. It took about 10 minutes for anyone to come over to me, which wasn't the best start. My husband and I were wanting a quick lunch, so as soon as the waitress came over, I ordered our entire meal as I waited for my husband. It did come out timely, but that - and the bacon - were the best parts of the meal.
We started with the twice baked fingerlings. I don't know what we were expecting, but it wasn't this. Out come 8 halves of potatoes - I guess they were fingerlings, but I would debate that. They were hollowed out a bit and stuffed with cheese/butter mixture. On top, was a tiny bit of scallions and bacon. The bacon was delicious, but the rest of it had no flavor whatsoever. I am not sure if there was cheese or butter in them - other than the description on the menu. It needed salt desperately, but there was none on the table, so we had to track some down. That helped, but they were still pretty sad.
Then I got the spinach salad with an add on of hangar steak, medium rare. John got the shrimp gumbo. The gumbo came in the smallest little container with a crostini. The gumbo was very spicy and good, but for 9 dollars could have been a little bigger. My salad consisted of huge pieces of spinach, a decent hunk of steak, some pickled onions, mushrooms, bacon and half a quail egg. Half. At first, I was impressed with the flavor of the salad - that was soon overshadowed by the ton of dirt/grit that was left on the spinach leaves and thus in my mouth. I wanted to say something, but we had a short amount of time for lunch and I was starving. And the waitress never really came back to fill our waters, so I wouldn't have expected much in the way of doing anything about the dirty spinach.
For 43 dollars for lunch, I expect a bit more. Clean spinach, flavor, an actual whole quail egg if you are going to bother with the quail egg to begin with and a bit more attentive wait staff.