Larry P.
Yelp
In recent years, Denver has exploded in fine creative restaurants, many with offerings that are comparable to top-tier restaurants in East and West Coast cities like New York and Los Angeles, only at somewhat more moderate prices. If Table 6 is any example, those days are gone.
We arrived promptly for our Saturday evening reservation, only to find that our table was not only unavailable, but we had to wait for 10 or 15 minutes to be seated, only to be pushed aside into the bar area without a word of apology. What are reservations for?
I suppose the menu here varies with some frequency, but the number of entrées is quite limited, and to be honest the portions are ungenerous, to be kind, especially given their highly inflated price. All four of our entrées hovered in the mid 30s to low 40s. Sides are extra.
My pork was unimpressive, not that tasty really, and even a bit chewy. My wife's duck leg (confit) was nothing less than atrocious, one minuscule leg left in the oven far too long, dried out and frankly tasteless. I have not been this disappointed with a meal in years.
The salad was OK, but hardly big enough to split, and with a $15 price tag, should've knocked me over. Lots of chatter about the tater tot potatoes, but I think that appetizer might've been $16 for five or six little tater tots. That's pretty ridiculous.
Then there's the wine list. My gosh, it's the first time I've been at a restaurant when they're not only is not a single bottle of house wine even in the high $40 range, but not even in the high $50 range, and the lowest priced wine bottles, unspectacular vintages, start in the $70's!!
We voted with our "feet", and split a couple of beers.
Perhaps the most offensive thing of all, on top of Denver's new very high sales tax rate for restaurant food, approaching California's sales tax rate, this pretentious restaurant brags about its "hard-working" kitchen staff on its menu and forces a separate service charge for its food preparers.
It's tipping gone mad. If the cooks are that hard-working and talented, which clearly they are not, then the owners should pay them more and not confiscate even more money from patrons with forced extra tipping. Why that's not tipping at all! It's a tax that just goes to the staff without really asking the customer how they feel about it.
The ambience is bustling, and surrounded in hard brick walls. One can even struggle to hear and be heard without shouting. And it's a race to the bottom because of that.
Table 6 prices it's menu like a five star restaurant, but delivers a one-star product. Skip this place. Denver has many more creative options for a great night out. Maybe save your shekels for your higher mortgage payment next month.