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🤮 1/5 - My family and I have been to Ristorante MV a couple times
By 👻 @V L., 02/14/2023 3:00 am
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My family and I have been to Ristorante MV a couple times and have generally had an exceptional dining experience. This time around, however, there was one issue in particular that tainted the entire endeavor that will almost certainly keep me away from the establishment for good. I will elaborate below.My latest dining experience took place on Valentine's Day, which included a fixed holiday-specific menu - meaning that it was a 3-course meal with an appetizer, an entrée, and a desert.item. Myself and the party with whom I attended, as usual, enjoyed everything we ordered and were pleased. The appetizers ordered were an escarole salad, a clam oreganata, and a fried mozzarella dish, all of which were good. For entrées, I ordered salmon which was well-cooked and nicely seasoned; the steamed vegetables on the side, to the contrary, were something that I would expect as a side for salmon at a diner, not at an upscale dining establishment. That was a disappointment because it was below their obviously high standards. My other acquaintances ordered a seafood risotto and fettuccine with a truffle cream sauce, all of which tasted great in their opinion. For desert, I ordered the chocolate tartufo which was delicious and had some obviously homemade vanilla gelato; my other acquaintances ordered a ricotta cheesecake and a tiramisu, all of which were exceptional - so within expectations. It is obvious that MV cares a great deal about the quality of their food and it shows in their execution and output: you can notice the quality differential between MV's food and average Italian cuisine. It's almost hardly a comparison.Along with the experience, we were lucky to have a live vocal performance from someone that sounded remarkably like Frank Sinatra, which was a huge plus to the experience.So...why 1 star? The price: among my PARTY OF THREE, the bill amounted to $650...I am NOT joking. This is an absurd price point - even for an upscale place like MV. The meal, as good as it was, was not even remotely justified for the price we had to pay. After burning through a great deal of cash, I recalculated what my order would have amounted to outside of Valentine's Day dining. It would have been around $70-75. What in the world justifies a 100% price increase for the same food?You may be asking: why did you bother coming if it was well beyond your dining budget? Simple: the restaurant didn't even bother disclosing the price of the 3-course meal. We didn't even know it was a special $150/person three-course fixed menu until we walked in and were handed the menus. It was not disclosed on their website; it was not disclosed on OpenTable - the site you use to make reservations; it was not disclosed on the reservation confirmation email. I don't know if this was deliberate (hell, I don't even know if it is legal), but if it was, then this is a disgraceful practice in which to engage. For obvious reasons, it would have been outright silly to sit down, get the menu, read the price, then get up and leave the place when we went through the trouble to make the reservation, let alone waste the lengthy drive and preparation to dress the part. My party honestly considered leaving after being in the establishment for only five minutes. For a restaurant that already served pricy food, this is a serious problem. Again, I've been to MV twice prior to this - I was expecting to spend a fair bit of money, but NOT $650.For a restaurant like MV to forget this detail is deplorable and deceptive to consumers - a grotesque practice if not disclosing the price until arrival was intentional. The owner might as well have pickpocketed me after I ate, and then booted me out of the place in the same way you would see in children's cartoons.Nothing about the experience justified raising the price by 2.0-2.5 times what is normally sold, not even on a holiday. I'm not going to be deceived in an act of what felt like highway robbery, which is why I am NEVER going back to this establishment. I am thoroughly disappointed, and will certainly be sharing my experience to those I know who have also dined at this establishment. It has also come to my knowledge that this was a practice done last Valentine's Day - charging way too much and not disclosing it. I am yet to find a reason why management finds it necessary to leave this out.
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