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😒 3/5 - I have to voice my opinion and warn people about this
By 👻 @Yingbo W., 08/26/2022 3:00 am
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I have to voice my opinion and warn people about this restaurant's mediocrity because this dinner was not cheap. The dining experience here was underwhelming for what I paid, $262 after tax and tip (no alcohol). This is the most expensive tasting menu restaurant I've been to in Seattle for just food. The food however tasted and looked just average like it belonged in a $$ Asian fusion restaurant. I was not impressed except by maybe the small chunk of halibut in one course. The ingredients for most of the dishes were pretty commonplace. At other $$$$ restaurants I'm eating sea urchin, spot prawns, oysters, crab, foraged mushrooms, truffles, or A5 wagyu. There was no fancy stuff here, just some salmon with a sprinkle of caviar and local collards. They served this broth in a tea mug with the fish course and it was literally just boiled collard green water. I was paying $$$$ for the water they cooked my veggies in. I can't believe they didn't even make a proper soup! There was lechon for the final main course but again, it didn't taste any nicer than lechon from a hole in the wall Filipino place. The halo halo dessert was different and creative from what I was used to but overall only 1.5 courses out of the whole meal stood out. The rest was a flop. I would describe the whole meal has having humble peasant vibes but marked up to be 4x the price.During the whole meal they were trying to sell the farm to table "we source everything locally" story to hype up the meal. They plated everything on native earthen and wooden bowls and on rocks, which I assume were local, too. Who cares if my rock is local? Can I eat this? Am I paying for your food or your hipster interpretive dinnerware? Meanwhile the food portions were tiny. For the last entree they asked us to rate how hungry we are from 1 to 5. I put I was 1, starving, hoping to get a bigger cut of meat and it was still kind of average sized.Lastly, the meal came with a culture lesson. They proselytized with each course about how amazing Filipino culture was with random facts that had loosely to do with Filipino people and the PNW. They talked about inventor of the Filipino Banana sauce and how she had a PhD from UW, the Filipino slave nanny that lived in the PNW who had the Atlantic article written about her, and how their Filipino friends owned a farm for some ingredient that was in a dish (I don't even remember what). With each course, I felt more and more manipulated into having to love the food because of the stories. The food tasted and looked honestly so mediocre. Was I supposed to like your food better because you named the dessert after grandma? It felt so forced and disingenuous. Imagine me as a Chinese person were to open a Chinese restaurant in PNW, serve you okay tasting dim sum from somewhere like China Harbor but just plated it only slightly better, mark it up $$$, then while you're eating a dumpling, I educate you about Bruce Lee and how he went to UW and how he is buried in Seattle. Or, imagine you're going to a vegan restaurant and being reminded every course they are so thankful you're not supporting the slaughter of innocent cows and chicks. Yeah it felt like that.The decor in the restaurant was cute but everything else they did felt like they were trying to add inflated value to the dining experience and detract from how mediocre the food was. The team even did this thing where they would set up all the plates, make eye contact and push every plate through the plexiglass divider towards the diners all at the same time. At first I didn't know how I felt about it because it was strange but now I realize it felt robot and forced, like they were trying to fabricate this impression of having consistency like at a Michelin star place when the meal was meh.We were dismissed with a parting dessert and menu wrapped and folded very intricately. I was impressed by how they designed menu, but the dessert tasted like a piece of corn bread. It was very buttery but again just corn bread.I did not even bother with an alcoholic pairing because they offered only wine and beer. I don't feel wine should go with Southeast Asian food and beer does not belong in such an expensive place. I wish they had Asian inspired cocktails and it feels low effort here for them to not have that.The kicker to all this was when I made the reservation, the payment page said there will be no refunds, and that you could opt to buy dining insurance in case you caught covid. Wtf is dining insurance? Every fancy restaurant I've been to allows for cancellations up to 48 hours in advance except here. What are you selling, a plane ticket to the Philippines or a meal?I can't understand all the 5 star reviews on Yelp. I honestly think there are no bad reviews because of the sappy stories they told. I briefly felt like a bad person for wanting to leave this 3 star review because how could I leave a bad review for grandma? I refuse to be emotionally blackmailed though.
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