"2010-12-19T00:00:00"^^ . "1"^^ . . . . "0"^^ . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . "My husband purchased a Groupon for this restaurant so we went this evening. The food menu is limited while the drink menu is extensive!\n\nThe waiter (Cody) made a good rec. for a white wine I enjoyed. But, it stopped there. The bread arrived and I took a slice and added some butter. I bit down on something salty and crunchy and at first I thought the crust area had some mixture of seeds and salt. I soon realized the butter itself had large chunks of sea salt in it, resulting in very salty bites each time! I scraped it off and enjoyed the bread plain. \n\nI ordered seared diver scallops and a side of crab mac and white cheddar cheese. The scallops were pretty close to raw and luke warm. The greens placed on top were attractive but largely tasteless (unless you are a rabbit). The designer mac and cheese was alright but a bit too saucy and could have used more flavor.\n\nThe waiter explained that the chef's approach is to under cook most dishes and that is was not cooked wrong but not cooked to my liking. He also commented on the fact that most of my dish was eaten... well, there were THREE scallops. I ate one, gave one to my husband to try and just could not eat the third.. The waiter later agreed the scallops were not cooked enough and gave us our desserts on the house. So, after being told the cooking was not wrong he then recanted with his revised statement. It would have been more appropriate had he examined the dish immediately and decided...\n\nThe raspberry/fig tart was good, esp. the vanilla ice cream. The chocolate ganache type creation was not very good. Yes, chocolate being only so-so! The bitter chocolate was VERY bitter and the sweeter choc. so sickeningly sweet, not a good flavor combo. on the palette. The passion fruit sauce along side the dish was great! Give me the ice cream with the sauce and there would be a winner!\n\nService was decent (we had 6 of the staff who come to our table!) and the view of the Roberto Clemete bridge was neat. If it was not for the Groupon deal I would have complained more about the scallops. \n\n\nFor the price, the quality was poor and a disappointment."^^ .