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This was one of those places that I wanted to like, but my experience was only so-so. We had brunch and we really enjoyed the food. My husbands steak and eggs were yummy and my ricotta stuffed french toast was scrumptious. But the service was abysmal. Our water glasses remained unfilled the entire time. My friends scrambled eggs were extremely runny, a problem that could have been easily remedied. But no one ever came to check on us and the eggs had to be thrown away. My friend had to leave and so we had to go looking for our waitress to ask for our check. We were snottily told "when I get to it". Twenty minutes later we had to go search the place for her again. When we finally got the bill, it had someone's completed comment card, including phone and e-mail address. I guard that info tightly, and I like to think that most restaurants will also be careful with my personal data.
I liked the food enough that I may give it another try, but I hope the service is better - they are shooting themselves in the foot here.
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I ate here last Fri nite for my birthday. As others have said, the decor is fantastic and the food was good, but not terribly memorable (on second thought, that may be due to the three cocktails I had prior to dinner). I had the veal starter, which was veal done two ways. It included a veal stuffed pastry puff, which was dry and not so good. (OK, without the cocktails I never would have ordered anything with a pastry puff!). I had sirloin for the main and the beef was perfectly cooked and juicy. Service was attentive and the place was packed. I would go back.
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MC Slim JB
Oct 12, 2008 10:26 AM
I like the food, but consistency is a problem. After a couple of good to excellent early experiences, I had a really bad meal there on a busy Saturday night: nothing arrived at our table hot. More recently, I had a terrific meal on a quieter weeknight. One more reason to avoid South End restaurants on weekends.
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re: dreaminfood
Stunning decor - to sit in the Banyan-tree inspired room is almost worth it by itself.
For the mains, stick with one of the fish dishes - there were two white fish on the menu at my last visit - DC and I each had one and both were excellent - . For starters, try the veal cheek salad - original and delicious
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My father loves it. I went with him on one occasion, and it just didn't jell for me. The decor is great and it is not too noisy (which is one of my fathers most important criteria for a good restaurant). The food was fine, but not at all memorable (I have absolutely no recollection of the specifics of my meal a month later). When I have been asked about it since, I have generally summed up my experience by saying that the food was fine, but it seemed overly fussy. As a disclaimer, I had just returned from eating street food in Vietnam, so it is possible that any american restaurant would have seemed fussy that weekend, but it was one of those places where the menu reads way better than the food actually is.
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re: Elyssa
As I said, my father loves it, and has been several times. It is truly beautiful inside. The noise level is not excessive. There certainly wasn't anything terrible, it just didn't impress me. Their biggest problem may be that the menu sounds so good ("food poetry" says the Globe) that the execution could never attain such heights...
I would certainly give it another try - might order differently next time. On the other hand, there are a lot of restaurants that I would like to try, and so little time.
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