Michael G.
Yelp
Review: Clear Sky Club Haus - Palm Harbor, FL
I have eaten at this establishment a couple times before. The biggest problem with restaurants that have 50 items on the menu, you don't know if you are going to have a good experience or a bad one. Unfortunately, today wasn't a good experience.
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Michael Glinter has traveled to 68 countries and 36 states to get the flavor of some amazing foods. His view on reviews is simple - Taste, Presentation, and Service. He believes it's important to tell the reader both a positive and negative unbiased look at the restaurant. Let's take a look and see how Casa Consenza scored in these 3 categories.
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Taste and Presentation
APPETIZER - we started with the Haus made crispy Brussel sprouts topped with goat cheese, balsamic glaze, and crumbled bacon. The dish itself sounded promising with their topping of goat cheese, balsamic glaze, and crumbled bacon, but unfortunately, the execution fell short. While the sprouts were well-cooked and crispy, the toppings were disappointingly sparse. The goat cheese would have been great if it was enough to cover the whole dish as goat cheese ads great flavor but it was only on about 30% of the sprouts, offering limited amounts of the tanginess that that the dish desperately needed, and the balsamic glaze was so minimal that it left the majority of the sprouts bland and underwhelming. This dish could have been bold and flavorful, however, the lack of toppings made it completely lackluster in taste.
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MAIN DISH - Ahi Tuna Salad Seared tuna, super greens, hard boiled egg, avocado, tomato, cucumbers, tomato ginger dressing. I always thought to myself how can you screw up a salad. Overall, the ingredients on the dish were OK - they weren't balanced well. There was a lot of cucumber and tomato, the egg was 1/2 as much and the avocado was almost not existent compared to the rest of the dish. The Tuna wasn't the best Tuna I have ever had. The tomato ginger dressing was a major disappointment. What really baffled me was the lack of ginger flavor at all. Ginger is a powerful spice that is not easy to miss in a dressing, but overall the dressing lacked any discernible depth of flavor. The tomato component tasted flat, as if it came from a watered-down puree, and the ginger was nearly nonexistent. Instead of being a bold dressing with significant flavor it was bland, uninspiring, and lacked the flavor to really make the salad a true enjoyment. For a dressing that consisted of two great ingredients, it was shockingly underwhelming.
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While I still probably would go back, you have to either lower your expectations or just be prepared for a spotty meal. The ambience is great for family, friends, or even watching the big game. The service was generally good. They just have a menu that is so complex and diverse it's hard for them to make anything REALLY good.