Mike A.
Yelp
My wife and had reservations and got seated right on time, but a mix up between the servers had us waiting 25 minutes before we were able to flag someone down to get our server to come over for the first time. He was apologetic and gave us some free drinks, but then it took 20 minutes to get us the drinks we ordered, during which we could see them sitting at the bar ready for pickup for 10 minutes. Ordering food went well, but it took almost 40 minutes for the appetizer, despite the restaurant being slow.. It was still a warm dish when it arrived at least though. This process was so slow we almost cancelled our entrees and went somewhere else , but decided to stick it out and try the food. The entrees took 30 more minutes, and we just skipped dessert because we weren't willing to keep waiting now that we were past the 2 hour mark.
We may have just had one-off service, other tables didn't seem to have such extreme delays.
The food though was very mediocre. The only positive was that it was spiced well, though cooked poorly. Having been in Cleveland awhile, we know even the highest end seafood restaurants have utter garbage seafood, so we gave all of that a pass. Maybe Wolf Pack Chorus is the exception to the dozens of restaurants of all qualities we've tried seafood at, but we weren't willing to chance it. Similarly, we know from experience that literally no one can get an edible fresh tomato outside of peak tomato season, so we passed on some of the food options we would normally jump on. We did get the halloumi dish as a starter, which was well conceived, if simple, and done well.
What we got for starters was Pot-de-Fue and Duck Config. The Pot-de-Fue was exactly what you would expect, a sauce heavy dish with meat cooked forever. Nothing about it was particularly special in concept or execution, you got what you can get at any restaurant serving shortribs in a reduction sauce with potatoes and mushrooms. The Duck however was horrible. It was so overcooked that the meat was extremely dry, and the skin was almost impossible to chew. The carrots were the right consistency, but the pesto might have been out of a can it was so boring. The raisin and pistachios in the separate sauce were almost completely tasteless and stale, but at least better than nothing.
Topping it off were drinks that had very interesting sounding ingredient combinations, and we're rly executed with skill, but not very good recipes. The Alpha was just 50-50 Japanese whiskey and dry sake/soju, and the Not So Talla was basically a watered down glass of Mezcal with flavorless glitter syrup in it. I wish I'd just gotten wine like my wife, who did avail herself of a Greek wine she gets at the local wine bar as well.
For presenting itself as a brand new nice restaurant, the food and drink fell pretty pretty flat. The service experience we had may have been a one off, but it was abysmal. I'd recommend everyone give it a pass, it's not worth the time.