Anne D.
Yelp
What you'll like: the cozy neighborhood space, the food and the cocktails. I'm a pescatarian and they were out of one of the two seafood options on the small menu, but my lonely fish entrée was nevertheless stellar. My husband said he enjoyed his pork chops--well seasoned, first rate gravy and big mound of delicious mashed potatoes (I had a bite).
That sounds like a lot of good stuff, and it is. But now let's talk about what you may not like so much. Woo boy.
BAD SEATING RULES. REALLY BAD. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
We walked into a completely empty restaurant (except for the bar) for a very early dinner. We wanted to sit beside each other at the front by the window. Ha ha. Too bad. The seating dude sailed right past me into the very back and dropped our menus on a two top with a chair across from the banquette, and walked away well before I could catch up with him.
One of life's tiny but strangely disturbing indignities--being given the worst table in an empty restaurant by some dude who acts like you're invisible. Which to him, apparently, I was.
Anyway, as a practical matter, I explained to our somewhat nicer waiter that my husband cannot hear a word I say from the other side of the table in a restaurant. And this was before they seated a family next to us complete with two toddlers, one of whom proceeded to melt down impressively. Yes, seated next to us. In an otherwise empty restaurant. Thanks again, cold cruel seating dude.
(Note to families with small children: this is a bar centric adult restaurant. Not a great choice for littles.)
Our wary waiter did let us pull another sliver of a two top over so that we could at least sit together, warning us that he might "need it later." Uh, OK...
We should have just left. But we were hungry and decided to laugh and lump it. That martini I knocked back helped. Good bartender.
Anyway, if you like pork chops, don't care about rude hosts and don't want to sit next to your date anyway, here you go. Enjoy.