Seamus McEvoy
Google
Ratatouille comes to Norwalk.
There are few restaurants that get a 4 star review that feature a mouse, a missed order and undercooked fish, but this is one of them. Apart from the aforementioned this place could have been a 6 star review (I know there’s no such thing with Google) but it just wasn’t right. So let’s start at the beginning….
Great atmosphere, superb layout and a cool chill pallet of colors. The waiter was super attentive, engaging and a really nice guy. The pre dinner drinks were fab, especially the spicy margarita, and it was spicy. Appetizers were delicious, tuna Tartar, shrimp cocktail and the spicy rigatoni. Yum. Then things got interesting….from the corner of my eye I see something moving out in the patio dining area…yup a juicy mouse. Now I get it, it’s a farmhouse atmosphere, but if I were the owners I would invest in a couple of feral cats. Speaking from experience that are superb deterrents, and nicer to look at than a mouse. Then came the missed order, 3 short ribs and one scallops, one of the short ribs was supposed to be Arctic Char. The waiter immediately spotted the issue and ordered the Char, and kindly left the extra short rib for us to nibble on. However, and I blame the kitchen on this, the Char came out quickly with a nice crusty exterior, but it was undercooked. They tried to fix the problem, but did it too hastily. So desert was a shared cheesecake, which was fab, and the we left. I actually think I’ll be back, regardless of the issues. It’s a cool spot, with really great staff and a great vibe.