C L.
Yelp
Sadly, I really wanted to love this place. I'll go back and give it another try. It just was so-so in flavor. Service was OK, nothing spectacular.
First is location. It's hard to find this place a bit. It's off of Wyoming street. The front door is not on the main drag. It looks like a first floor commercial office space refurbished to use as a restaurant. The designers did a great job, but still, it does not have the look and feel of a restaurant. The front door, shouldn't be a glass office door opening around the corner, it should open up to the sidewalk on Wyoming, welcoming people. 2) When you put up a curtain in front of your door, to create the illusion of a swanky restaurant, it makes it difficult for the hostess to see patrons entering, and thus you might be left to wait there a while encircled in a cylinder of fabric while diners who can see you just stare. Hopefully in the future your success will allow you to move into a better space, a restaurant space. For now it seems like a secret club.
I had the French onion soup, a glass of champagne and the vegetable risotto. All were overpriced for what you get.
The French onion soup was fair, not great. The best part was the croutons and melted cheese. It basically lacked flavor, perhaps not enough wine or salt in it. Just bleh.
The risotto, though somewhat tasty, was not risotto. Firstly, it was not made with Arborio rice, you know, the type of rice you have constantly stir and slave over the stove for about 20 minutes constantly adding broth little by little to get a smooth, creamy consistency? No. Instead think rice soup with beef bouillon and a few al dente veggies thrown in. The rice was in their full grain-iness, not creamy, but rather seemingly from some 99 cent bag of Texas long grain. No cheese either in this $27 rice soup. Oh sure, it had interesting tiny pieces of cauliflower, or some odd sweet potato chip on top, but it's like they're trying too hard to reinvent this classic Italian dish to make it work in a "French" restaurant. Here's an idea: call it vegetable rice soup and shave $10 off the price! That would be a fair offering.
People rave about this place, but honestly, I cannot. Sorry. I've eaten French food in many a place, even France, and this did not even come close. Maybe I just chose the wrong dishes. Hope so.
When my server asked me how my meal was, I did remark I wasn't too happy with the vegetable rice soup sold as risotto. She just shrugged her shoulders and said "yeah, that's just how the chef does it here. " I hardly think my server even knows what risotto is.
I'll be back and try something different. Perhaps it will be better.