Kevin T.
Yelp
Used to come here with some regularity; not so much anymore
As you enter, the maître d' desk is staffed by a bevy of dressed up, highschool-aged girls all atwitter, deep into their private, lively, giggly conversation.
No fear. They will notice you.
But they will turn away because their conversations are more important than your being seated.
What do you say?
My partner and I stood in front of them for a few minutes. Until I had to interrupt. My mistake
One of the maidens grabbed a pair of menus, swanned us over to a table and LITERALLY flung the menus onto the table we were being assigned. Unfortunately she had to get past me to get back to her kaffeeklatsch at the desk, and when I looked her in the eye, she scowled, vacated her eyes so as to look through me and made me move out of her way.
The food is good. Generally.
My berkshire pork chop was truly amazing, tender, flavorful. It was accompanied by 2 teaspoons of the single-most watery apple sauce. It wasn't even Motts. The second accompaniment was a cold German potato salad whose sugar content was high enough to make me think it was a dessert. I couldnt eat it. I had also ordered a Greek tomato salad special. Chunks of half of a red tomato and of half of a yellow tomato swimming in some kind of unrecognizable juice along with some very limp cucumber slices, chopped red onion, several kalamata olives, a huge slice of feta cheese, and way too much oregano. Oregano is a lovely accent for tomato, but too much oregano makes food taste the way burning rubber smells; and truth be told, the tomatoes also tasted a bit like they were on the verge of spoiling, oregano aside. A splash of a fruity greek olive oil would have been a better "juice" for the salad to swim in, but import tariffs blah, blah, blah.
Because it was a birthday event, we were served two complimentary cream puffs cased in hard chocolate. This is a lovely touch. Unfortunately the chocolate casing was very thick and hard - impossible to break with a fork - and the cream puff was as soggy as the weather that was drenching outside that evening. So my guess is they had been made, assembled, frozen days before - to save time I guess. Perhaps one of the doormaidens (why are there so many of them hanging around gossiping) could be used to prepare the cream puffs for service just as they're required? A cream puff should not need to be soggy if the cream is injected just before serving. And a drizzle of a fresh chocolate sauce completes the effect without freezing.
Anyway. The atmosphere, the venue are quite charming; the river side and landscaping make for a lovely setting; apparently they do serve great event celebrations here.
And finally, I guess, it isn't worth mentioning really but the foot of the stemmed waterglass I was awarded had such an enormous damaged rim on one side that it looked as if someone had actually taken a bite out of it. Seems like this glass shouldn't be in use any longer; but what do I know.
But what is goin on with the bread basket server? Really? One little breadlet the size of 2 dominoes stacked tongplopped onto each bread dish? And forget about asking for a second serving; the bread basket server - by virtue of doling out a single roll to each eater is going to be in demand around the dining room thus ensuring she is always busy....
In all, it might seem like I am being too critical, but when you're paying the prices they're charging - well...you expect a bit more