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๐คฎ 1/5 - Thanksgiving Dinner At Verลnika: No Thanks.
By ๐ป @HDC-Mich, 11/26/2023 3:00 am
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For Thanksgiving, 2023, I was in New York to support a wonderful charity, and took my family to see the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in the morning. Since we were away from home, we made reservations for the special, prix fixe ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ค๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ง๐๐ซ at Verลnika. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ โข Served in a beautiful setting. I was sitting at the end of a rectangular table with a central leg, making my place a little uncomfortable, but that's sometimes just the way furniture is built. โข All the staff were extremely personable and friendly. From the doorman, to the hostesses to the coat check to the wait staff, everybody wished us a happy holiday and went out of their way to make us feel welcome . โข The dishes, and the way food was presented on them were a delight to the eyes. โข The smell of the food was wonderful. โข The homemade croissants were exceptional. I truly wish there had been more. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ โข Pretty much everything else, though I did not taste the ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ด that my wife ordered. โข The โ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ต ๐๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ด๐ฉ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑโ was the next best thing any of us tried after the croissants, but I was the only one who finished a bowl. โข After the disappointing starters (some ordered the โ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎรฉโ), there was well over half an hour between the time our soup dishes were cleared and our main course arrived. By that time, to my sorrow, everybody was frustrated, with some scrolling on their phones. Notably, this was the last seating of the evening and there were many empty tables; The problem was not the crowds. There was a high server-to-guests ratio as waiters stood around with nothing to do, but ready to instantly respond to any patrons seeking assistance. โข Between the five of us, we tried two of the three offered entrees (nobody was inclined to test the โ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐บ" on Thanksgiving). The โ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐บโ was very, very dry and had a grainy feel, like ice cream that had accidentally thawed and been re-frozen. The "๐๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ" somehow had the same unpleasant texture. Nobody finished their main course. Perhaps my son captured some of the experience without being precise when he said, "Everything tasted like liver." โข The brownish block titled "๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐จ" and the cube of "๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ" were a cross between a high end cafeteria and the solid attempt prepared with the limited tools that one would appreciate on a long haul commercial flight in business class. โข Our original waitress had ended her shift, and 10 minutes after the entree dishes were cleared, her replacement graciously and apologetically said that our dessert orders had not been recorded for her, so she took them again. 15 minutes after that (again, nearly half an hour after the prior dishes had been taken away), the final course arrived. The "๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ" was the best, and with five people at the table, half of the one slice that had been ordered was left on the plate. The "๐๐ข๐ด๐ฑ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ" was a very thick layer of toasted meringue over concentrated sugar in a raspberry filling and nothing but the thinnest layer of anything that could be called cake; It was beautiful to look at, but not very appetizing. The "๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ" was admittedly a gamble, but we lost that bet, though one of my daughters enjoyed the ribbon of chocolate decorating the top. โข I am sincerely awed at the bartenderโs ability to screw up a ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ฆ. I asked specifically for ๐๐ข๐ฑ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ'๐ด if they had it. He or she elected to substitute ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐จ๐ข๐ญ ๐รฑ๐ฆ๐ซ๐ฐ and made it so strong that it could almost be described as a glass of rum over ice with a heavy splash or two of cola. Perhaps the excess of alcohol justified the nearly $20 charge, but it was largely undrinkable. More to the point, it was not what I ordered. I have had many meals in many restaurants in Manhattan. I have occasionally tried something that I was not sure I would like, and sometimes it was not appealing to me, but that is the nature of trying new things. In this case, we thought we knew what to expect. I can say without equivocation that this was the most disappointing meal I have ever had in a New York restaurant. To be fair to the chef and kitchen staff, this was a special menu for one night, and it is entirely possible that it is not a fair representation of what they serve over the rest of the year. TLDR version: Six, really great, homemade croissants for almost $1,000 accompanied by a beautiful display of other dishes that were not very enjoyable. I could not bring myself to leave a small tip because the serving staff did their very best work with what they had and were unwaveringly likable. We left Verลnica's Thanksgiving Dinner unsatisfied. Not much was open for walk-in business in Manhattan late on Thanksgiving night. Fortunately, we still had some food in our hotel room.
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