That said, they had a good looking beer list, and a decent, yet incoherent menu. We ordered an appetizer sampler, but nothing was really memorable. My entree, the prosciutto and Gorgonzola stuffed chicken was tasty, but small. When I read "whole airline chicken breast" I was expecting a fair amount of bird, but what arrived on my plate was somewhere under six ounces. They left the skin on, which I think is great. There are several different opinions about this, but in fancier-pants cooking, skin-on is the way to go. It retains all of the moisture and a fair amount more seasoning than boneless-skinless. The bird was well-seasoned and you could actually tell what it'd been stuffed with, without having read the menu description.
I didn't get much scoop on the food that the other gents ordered. You see, as much as I always detested Seinfeld, there was a lot to George Costanza's theory about worlds colliding. It's a bit of a push for me to report on dining I did on business trips, but I'm certainly not going to ask my co-workers how their dinner hits their palate. FvF world must stay completely separated from regular work world, as well as in-law world.
Service was okay - just okay. Nothing to write home about, and he wasn't very knowledgeable about their wines or top shelf bar items. The price points, in my opinion, are a little steep, considering portion sizes. The part of the menu that almost made me stroke out was the side orders. Mac & cheese, cole slaw, fries, wild rice, any of them - $5 each. Yeah, American dollars. Shut the front door! Do they have a special decoder ring in them? Are they gemmed with gold bullion? Will they be spoon-fed to me by an oiled-up immigrant? Chewed up by my server and spit back into my mouth like I'm a baby bird? If the answer to any or all of those questions is no, then I can see that we're quite finished here.
3.5 out of 5 sporks!
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