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Beautiful experience, food, service.
Due to a friends tenacity we finally acquired reservations. Despite what other reviewers have posted, I found the service unpretentious, and very accomodating.
A server overheard my disappointment over the leatherbound menus, I wanted a copy to take home. She informed me that they have copies in folders and inquied how many I would like. They were wonderful.
The menu was fabulous; we were fortunate enough to have the oysters and pearls and it was the most unusual surprise of the evening. No stranger to fine dining, I still tend to shy away from foie gras due to principal, but broke down here to taste it for the first time. Pure butter; absolultey gorgeous! The portions are very small, but it was a nine course meal with a few surprises in between. Due to the length of time it takes to complete a meal, trust me, you are more than satisfied in the end. The flavors did not disappoint. There was one fish dish where the fish was overwhelmed by its accompaniment, but this is a minor complaint to an otherwise fabulous meal/experience.
Toward the end of the evening (we shut them down, it was past midnight at this point) we struck up a conversation with one of their staff who offerd a tour of the kitchen; impressive! By that time, the kitchen was so clean one never would have known that they had been cooking in it just an hour earlier. There were about six to eight chefs all huddled around one of their tables working on the following day's menu.
Lovely, lovely, experience, cannot say enough wonderful things about it. We went off with a bag of about a dozen soft center truffles in different flavors and two packages of melt in your mouth butter cookies.
Will we return? Ah, if we can just acquire those hard to get reservations!