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🤮 1/5 - Style over substance? How can this place merit its former reputation?
By 👻 @mesuremax, 04/25/2024 3:00 am
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Visited as a couple for a weekend dinner treat, based on the strong online reviews and creole cooking style advertised. The restaurant itself seemed odd in a local strip mall setting, with decor that felt like it was really trying hard to be an upmarket dining room, but in a secondary location. The website had a number of spelling mistakes, which should have been a warning for a fine-dining establishment - my favourite being the section describing the various “Roooms” available. The service was polite and attentive - our waitress was charming. She was excellent throughout. The food, however, was really poor - on a menu that, again, appeared to be trying too hard to be upmarket but slipped into pretentiousness - does anyone know what a “sesame situation” is as a food description?! Starters ordered were BBQ shrimp and oyster stew. The shrimp was adequate, drowned in a mixture that was heavy-handed with something, probably Worcester sauce. The oyster stew wasn’t a stew at all. It was 4 poached oysters served in a small amount of a sort of oyster bisque/reduction. Unfortunately the bisque was very acidic/acrid and therefore unpleasant to eat - I’m not sure what the reason was - too much lemon or vinegar or Worcester sauce perhaps. Mains were red fish and mushroom/fennel (with its sesame situation!). The red fish was nicely cooked. It came with a mix of mushrooms, peas and small roast potatoes which should have been delicious but in fact was almost inedible as the mixture was unbelievably salty. I think it was the mushrooms that were the problem, but surely the chef would have tasted it before letting it leave the kitchen. With the other main, the fennel was overcooked and the whole dish was covered with a strong chilli that overpowered it. The waitress kindly took that dish away and took it off the check. Overall, therefore, we were spectacularly disappointed. Paying these prices, one expects great quality cooking and attention to detail in the kitchen, combined with good service. The service matched up. The food really was poor. A bad day in the office.
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