We had a wonderful dinner here last night and I cannot say enough good things about our experience. Firstly, the dining room has fantastic ambience and great table spacing/privacy.
Secondly, the team is just outstanding. The somms, the waitstaff, everyone really was attentive, friendly, helpful and helped us have a tremendous experience.
So the food? Just great. We did the Silvia tasting menu with a wine pairing for five courses. The amuse bouche was great with several small bites that were really lovely. The cocktail in a small "egg" that you ate in one bite was super creative and tasty. We probably liked the crispy "wagon wheel" that had ricotta embedded inside each spoke the best. I'll take 20 to go please!
The bread service was amazing and I'd put it against a cage match with Joel Robuchon on Clarges street right now (best breadbasket on the planet away from here). This was different in a really lovely way. We started with the brioche and some grissini. Then they did a lovely foccacia brought warm in a pan to the table with a cheese spread that I cannot now remember but it was great. And then we had french baguette and integrale with salted butter. It took all of our discipline not to just take down all this amazing bread.
For the courses, we had a salad with artichokes and feta, the signature wafer with sea bass tartare, lobster and ricotta cheese (male lobster which is astice not aragosta which is female lobster and what you think of most of the time which one of the staff very politely explained to us), spaghetti salad with scallops, vermouth glazed duck, porca l'oca, a quick cheese course (shared) and desserr wtih persimmon, chestnuts and yogurt. For a single bite, the porca l'oca is AMAZING. However, the spaghetti salad had a blend of flavors and textures that was probably my favorite followed by the wafer. And best of all it was paced perfectly and not too much food. We were full and satisfied at the end but not stuffed.
The wine pairings were great (a reisling, soave, sancerre, amarone and then a nice wine with dessert that I think was Sicilian) and really complemented every course.
We were able to end our night with a quick tour of the kitchen and chef's table which looks terrific. Sadly, we hadnt fully internalized that they received their THIRD MICHELIN STAR that day so did not congratulate the chef. This is not the best place to do it but CONGRATULATIONS Chef on a job well done and stars well earned! We look forward to returning soon. read more