Catherine B.
Yelp
I am so very disappointed. I have been wanting to try this place since they won "best of." Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Let's start with the food since it is the reason we went. The shumai were overcooked and soggy. For some reason, they floated a raw jalapeno slice on the sauce- the dish wasn't spicy at all, the jalapeno did not change the flavor of the sauce, and it was in the way. It was just a very poor garnish choice. We also had egg rolls- They were bland, small, and served too hot. The cucumber on the plate with the thumb sized egg rolls tasted like mold.
Between the quality of the food and the lack of service, we decided against ordering entrees and went elsewhere. By lack of service I mean we were ignored repeatedly by multiple staff members, and the server acted visibly disappointed when we didn't want drinks. It was not busy when we were there, since it was pretty early for dinner, but there were still at least 5 cooks in the kitchen, each appeared to be making only 1 dish. The server was slow to take our order, and left before we could order entrees, which ended up working to our advantage. We were seated by 1 staff member, had another take our order, had a third deliver our food and were checked out by still another. None of them was apparently capable of asking us if we needed anything else, such as soy sauce or pointing out that the menu is ONLY online. Their prices *might* have been justified if the quality and portions had matched expectations, but they failed miserably in both areas.
The bar pretending to be a restaurant was nice looking, but the seats were hard, it was loud even when mostly empty, and the room was cold. Oh, and there wasn't any parking. We won't be back.