Si L.
Yelp
Came here for my birthday and had a great experience! It is a beautiful place, and I loved the garden surrounding it. We received bread to start with. It was okay--I preferred softer bread, and I usually loved vinegar, but the one here was a little too sour than I wanted.
Everything came out incredibly fast! (I was worried that fine-dining restaurants usually take forever). The server brought out the brussels sprouts before we were even done with the bread. I was very surprised by its huge portion. It's definitely a perfect appetizer for a big party. The taste was good and it was crispy, too, but I like the inside to be softer (many were BIG pieces, and they can be cooked longer).
The server was right--the spicy seafood puttanesca was not spicy at all, haha. You can request the spice level, though. When I took the first bite of the shrimp, I was SO impressed. The shrimp were big, definitely very fresh, and cooked to perfection. It was my favorite food of the night. There were a bunch of other seafood as well, like calamari and mussels, which were all very good. It was kind of interesting that they used salmon flakes in it; I felt it was underwhelming. I couldn't taste much of it as these little flakes were overpowered by the spagetti and other amazing seafood.
I got a complimentary chocolate lava cake for my birthday. The taste was good, but it was overbaked--the texture was a bit rough, and there was not much "lava" inside.
Overall, the food was good (and the seafood, of course, was exceptional). But since this is a fine-dining restaurant, I had high expectations of the food with the price I'm paying, so I'm giving it a four-star as dishes other than the seafood puttanesca seemed not quite up to par. Service was five-star!