The only reason why I'm giving this place 4 stars instead of 5 is because the service wasn't all that great, but everything else was suburb.
We came here for a friend's birthday dinner last weekend; we were impressed with the atmosphere and the ambience right away. This place is located in a prime, upscale shopping center with plenty of parking, so that wasn't a problem at all.
We were immediately greeted by the host staff, and sat at our table only a minute or two after our scheduled reservation. The restaurant itself is beautiful, and they have a huge selection of wines, which are all stacked up against the wall, surrounding the bar. The bar is separated from the rest of the restaurant since they had live music going, it looked like a party for sure!
They had a great menu selection which had great quality food. The food definitely correlated with how nice the restaurant was. I ordered the 8oz beef fillet with brussel sprouts and garlic mashed potatoes, along with the smoked tomato soup for an appetizer. Everything I ordered was absolutely amazing! Zero complaints about the food.
The service, on the other hand, was not tot great. From the time we sat down, it took our server at least ten minutes to greet us, and we didn't even have any menus of any sort. He greeted us, left for another 10 minutes, came back with drink menus, and then left again. I had a couple questions about their signature cocktails, but he kept disappearing on us! I eventually had to settle for a craft beer since it took him forever to come around and take our drink orders. It then took FOREVER to get our drinks, and it wasn't even the bar tender's fault, because I saw our drinks sitting up at the bar for 15 minutes!! After we got our drinks, we FINALLY got our food menus, which then took another 20 minutes to order...I'm not even joking, the wait time for everything was so, SO slow!!!! I could understand if the place was slammed with guests, but it wasn't too terribly busy, and they did not appear to be understaffed either, so I'm not sure why it took nearly 30 minutes to order our food from the time we sat down.
Fortunately, our food didn't take too long from the time we ordered, so we were very happy about that. Again, to reiterate, the food was SO good, which is the majority of the reason why I'm giving this place a good review. At the end, I wanted to order dessert because I hear that they good dessert here, but our server didn't give us a dessert menu or even bother asking! I didn't even get a chance to ask because he never came by after that.
So to summarize, the food, location, and the place itself was top-notch. The service was sub-par, to say the least, so if you're in a hurry or pressed for time, I suggest you not come to this place unless you have at least 2 to 3 hours to burn for dinner. read more