"A for effort"...
Ok, I love their menu....technically... I like that they offer things like fried sardines, zucchini fritti, bacaloa spread...
So hooray for the menu! But the execution....oy vey!
Seriously, when you have to add salt...a generous amount of salt....to a bacalao spread, something is seriously wrong! With a squeeze of lemon the spread became reminiscent of salted cod fish.
Basically I had to keep the salt grind close at hand cause everything was severely under seasoned. The zucchini fritti were limb and topped with some bland grated unmelted dutch cheese. Why not Parmesan? Or Pecorino?
The whole dinner was sad really. The semifreddo was rock solid frozen.
Staff was uncustomary friendly, nothing but good intentions. So I really wanted this to be good! But the only things that were remotely decent were the lamb skewers. After a sprinkling of salt of course... And the sardines, perhaps.
I'm baffled at why people are raving about this place on other review sites. Cockamamie!
It hurts me to do this, but....okay, so 1 star for introducing me to Monkey 47 gin served with Fentimans tonic. And an A, not for effort but for intention. That's all I can squeeze out of this place though. That and a slice of lemon...and a sprinkle of salt.
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