Most of the things I hate in NYC restaurants are again obvious here;
The over fifty crowd gets shoved in the corners next to the bathrooms and the wait stations.
The wine list is incomprehensible, the sommelier was nice enough to recommend something affordable among the many overpriced choices. The service actually is ok though too hassled.
The food comes out so fast, no time to relax - hello, tap, mineral or sparkling? hello, any wine or cocktails? hello, need help with the menus? hello, ready to order? hello here is the food. Boom boom boom. take a break guys, let us enjoy our conversation.
Now the food is all coming out at breakneck speed:
Appetizers were frito misto - good, crudo - excellent, polenta - cold, mushy, boring. short ribs - good texture but cold, with a creamy farro risotto (how much butter/cream can you put in that?)
Entrees: the famous spaghetti with tomato sauce, good but not earth shattering good, a black cod entree looked very strange, smallest and thinnest slice of black cod I've ever seen. No sign of the fennel dust and serving three grape tomatoes when the menu says concentrated tomatoes is bordering outrageous.
Dessert: The coconut panna cotta with guava soup is so sweet it has no other flavors except sugar.The chocolate peanut butter ganache is good.
The problem is that when you're sitting down in an unrelaxed atmosphere, everything happens so fast, no time to enjoy the food, no time to have a decent conversation, you just want to leave.
Sure, we could complain and then what? We get comped some other bad dish that we didn't want sitting in an unwelcome space, we get $20 off a $300 check? No thank you. We'd rather not return.
The over fifty crowd gets shoved in the corners next to the bathrooms and the wait stations.
The wine list is incomprehensible, the sommelier was nice enough to recommend something affordable among the many overpriced choices. The service actually is ok though too hassled.
The food comes out so fast, no time to relax - hello, tap, mineral or sparkling? hello, any wine or cocktails? hello, need help with the menus? hello, ready to order? hello here is the food. Boom boom boom. take a break guys, let us enjoy our conversation.
Now the food is all coming out at breakneck speed:
Appetizers were frito misto - good, crudo - excellent, polenta - cold, mushy, boring. short ribs - good texture but cold, with a creamy farro risotto (how much butter/cream can you put in that?)
Entrees: the famous spaghetti with tomato sauce, good but not earth shattering good, a black cod entree looked very strange, smallest and thinnest slice of black cod I've ever seen. No sign of the fennel dust and serving three grape tomatoes when the menu says concentrated tomatoes is bordering outrageous.
Dessert: The coconut panna cotta with guava soup is so sweet it has no other flavors except sugar.The chocolate peanut butter ganache is good.
The problem is that when you're sitting down in an unrelaxed atmosphere, everything happens so fast, no time to enjoy the food, no time to have a decent conversation, you just want to leave.
Sure, we could complain and then what? We get comped some other bad dish that we didn't want sitting in an unwelcome space, we get $20 off a $300 check? No thank you. We'd rather not return.
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