Hello, I've only just started using Yelp for two main reasons...this is one of them. This restaurant is very nice, its FOH staff are well trained and pretty hard working, the atmosphere is welcoming, and the two stars goes to that. But you do not only go to a restaurant to be pleased by staff, you mostly go for the food, and that is where the low rating really comes from.
The food at this restaurant is...well, its quite below expectation, and overly charged. I ordered the poke, charcuterie, and the $42 rack of lamb with Au gratin Potatoes. My wife ordered the $32 NY strip steak with fried onion.
So the apps:
Poke: poke is originally a Hawaiian dish, served with raw tuna (cubed), green and white onion, and pink salt or sesame oil or oyster sauce, the sky is the limit. This poke was not cut into cubes, in fact whomever did the cutting, needs to sharpen their knives, because I got chunks of mangled fish. Different sized pineapple chunks, and peanuts. Overall the dish was subpar, it took 4 scopes with a spoon to finish, and the flavors were just meh...not a $15 dish.
Charcuterie: we opted for the Charcuterie for 2, which leaves me to believe that the Charcuterie for one would just have one meat on it, as there was only 2 meat selctions, some pickled carrots and pickled peppers. Our first meat dish was paté with some aspic on top, sadly the contents were not set, and it was very loose and almost watery. The second meat was, well I have no clue, it did not taste like anything in particular, but my wife thought it tasted like Vienna Sausages...the ones from the can. Anyways this was $19, and for the amount of food, I would drop it down, to $15.
Onto the Main Course:
NY Strip Steak with Horseradish Butter and Buttermilk Fried Onion $32: what my wife received was a small white plate, NY strip the butter and some Au Jus, we had to remind the staff that it came with an onion, which she got the smallest one...but okay, sure, I get it, Let's be a simplistic restaurant, but seriously $32 for steak and an (one) Onion, that's just annoying, alas my lovely wife enjoyed the flavors and the steak was cooked to her liking.
Rack of Lamb with Potatoes Au Gratin, Romesco sauce and Peppers $42: I took a look at the menu to see exactly where this lamb came from, so I could then check how large these lambs were, because 4 terribly cleaned pops, are not worth mine or anyone's time. I even took a picture to show the amount of fat that was on this lamb dish. Which I dont know how to add on the mobile app, so you'll just have to take my word. I was able to get 3 bites of actual meat per 2 pops. So hopefully that says something. The Romesco Sauce and peppers were alright, but the Au Gratin Potatoes took the cake. I think the chef or the sous chef may have forgotten what Au Gratin actually means and just decided to hi e me thinly sliced undercooked and under seasoned potatoes. So this was just a poor dish all together, and for the chef to let it pass inspection and actually go be served. That's just crappy management.
Had desert, it was good. Got bill, and I don't know if they do this to all patrons, but the tip calculator at the bottom, actually charged a dollar more then what it should be. So that was weird too.
Anyways, the food in my opinion was not up to the prices they were charging, the atmosphere and FoH staff were pleasant, but I do not go to restaurants for the pleasantries. I won't be going back here. read more