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🤢 2/5 - Pretty food that evidently no one tasted in the kitchen; All show and almost no substance.
By 👻 @Chris O, 01/12/2024 3:00 am
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I'm sorry to say that I found this to be a very disappointing meal - both in terms of the food and the service. It was my birthday, and my husband and I were in the city for work and pleasure. We decided to go here Saturday night to celebrate my birthday proper. Bottom line: I would never return, and I've told others (who commented on how pretty the restaurant looked from my few instagram posts) not to come here either. First, the good - it's a beautiful restaurant. The bar is lovely and the restaurant as a whole is well decorated. Honestly, it was one of the most aesthetically appealing restaurants I've ever been to. And the cocktails and wine menu are very good. So bravo on all that. Now, the bad - I think the easiest way to describe the experience is that this is a restaurant that strives to serve fine French cuisine without actually having ever eaten (or eaten often enough) good French cooking. True, the dishes looked like dishes one would eat in France but "looks" was where it stopped. It was like what someone thinks French food should be without actually tasting any of the food. We started with a few of the small plates. They were mostly good - the oysters and the yellowfin tuna. The yellowfin tuna was well done. Solid. But the oysters were sitting in so much camembert that you really couldn't taste anything else. It was essentially oysters Rockefeller with a ton of camembert. Then we ordered the chicken and foie gras as a next course. This was good. No complaints. Not amazing, but perfectly fine. We then moved on to the lobster dish. It was delicious but honestly it was just steamed lobster in a butter sauce. You can't really screw that up. Very good but not because of any real preparation. Things really went down hill with the duck. We ordered the Canette a l’orange (for two) at $129. This was a good example of a restaurant trying to be French (essentially, to make duck a l'orange) and making it look pretty on the plate but evidently never taking a bite to realize that it's bad. First there was a duck breast - so incredibly chewy from being cooked poorly. Also, it was very gamey. Now, of course, duck is a gamey meat. This is true. But a well-prepared duck breast will be paired with sauces and other accompaniments that blunt the gamey taste or weave together the gamey taste with other flavors that make it delicious. No such thing here. There was a very weak orange sauce and a cute little peeled orange on the side. That was the extent of the effort. Then, this was followed by a skillet with two of the duck quarters, set amid endives of various preparations. None of this worked. The duck was whatever (fine, not great) and the endives were so incredibly bitter. The duck and the bitter did not work together. Maybe they could have with a more skillful chef but this wasn't it. But, it looked beautiful in the skillet - again, pretty food that evidently no one tasted. We ordered two desserts (the caramel sabayon and another one that I can't even remember). The caramel sabayon was fine. Nothing to write home about, but competently done. The other dessert was forgettable. As my husband and I were talking about the meal at the end, the head waiter saw us and walked over to take our plates and ask how things were. I couldn't help myself, so I shared with him some of my observations. He seemed baffled...not that he was surprised that I had negative remarks but more that I had remarks at all. He didn't seem to know at all how to respond. As an aside, our own waiter also wasn't very helpful. For example, at the beginning of the meal we asked him if there was anything in particular that he would recommend on the menu. His response (I kid you not): "I never recommend anything. It all depends on the kind of experience you want to have. Some of these dishes are very French while some are more general crowd pleasers)." I almost had to laugh but just politely thanked him. For two people and for all these dishes and booze, it was not worth $680. This place is all show. Michelin really needs to revisit this selection.
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