Just had the Carte Blanche. I absolutely wouldn't recommend it. On the one hand, we did get 20+ courses for less than $100. Sounds amazing. On the other hand, I thought I had maybe 4 or 5 solid courses, and a whole lot of mediocre filler. If you've had a bunch of great experiences there already, I'd stick to the regular card.
Things that I liked:
- Malpeque oysters with a mignonette. Nice choice of oyster: briny and creamy. Too bad I only got one, and there was bits of grit and shell in it.
- The devilled eggs. Don't know what they put in it, but it sure was tasty.
- Seared sea breem on a cream of leak and potato sauce with some mussels and potato chips. Nicely crisp layer on the fish, and a very tasty sauce. This was pretty much the second cooked dish we got.
- The bread. Too bad when I asked the server if it was a soda bread, she was totally confused and said, umm, "It's whole wheat."
- tiny ball of bacon ice cream, rolled in mochi
Things I didn't like:
- marinated mussels - a real wtf presentation, served at the bottom of a glass. Had to fish them out with a fork. Overly fishy.
- salt baked fingerling potato with nori butter - it's called a side. pair it with something else.
- poached egg on top of salsa verde and potato chips. It was covered in a foam with an unpleasant grainy texture. Too bad, the rest of it was tasty.
- the chicken. Beautiful presentation, with one tiny piece of chicken. I was told it was the chicken breast, only I bit into it and found it was an incredibly slimy piece of dark meat. Not cool.
- the desserts - a tasteless tower of frozen poached pear, and utterly tasteless and not creamy chocolate ice cream. The chocolate plate, with ice cream, ganache, and brownie also lacked flavor contrast. Also, they finished it all off with a stale house made Pocky.
There were a few other things which were ok, like the crudo/steak tartare, and the eel bite.
The food wasn't great, but the dining experience was excruciatingly torturous by the end, due to the extremely loud volume of the room. I
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