360 Bistro

So as I write this, I have a good take on how I feel about the food here after having talked about it and the experience over a few days. I enjoyed the ambiance here, and the food was excellent. I love finding places that have new foods that I have never tried, and this place had many different experiences to be had. The duck was excellent, although I did have a challenge of medium rare duck getting to me mentally. The flavor was great but I started to psych  myself out as I ate it. Overall, a great experience and we will be back again!

my husband and i had a groupon for here, so we pretended to be of a higher class and made our reservations.  

we're huge foodies, loving to try local places, obscure foods, and creative dishes, so we had pretty much already made up our mind what we would be ordering before we even arrived.  i love calamari, as long as it doesn't look like they just grabbed the squid, battered it, and dropped it in the fryer whole (i like it when it's in tiny bite size pieces), luckily, that's exactly how it's served here.  we also ordered the wild boar tartar with wild huckleberries. unless you already know that tartar means raw, then you'd not even realize it's raw wild boar--the huckleberries are the prominent flavor in this, but yet, the small minced pieces of raw wild boar are quiet pleasant.

i ordered the chicken breast stuffed with goat cheese and figs and a truffle sauce drizzed atop.  it was good, but very sweet and rich.  i could only eat half of it before the rich sweetness of truffle sauce, goat cheese and fig preserves overwhelmed my tummy.  

my husband ordered the grilled duck breast-medium rare (the recommended temperature).  this isn't your cheap method cooked duck breast you'd get from lesser places, it's cooked to the perfect description temperature you request, and still trimmed with the fat (as it should be)-a lot of places ruin duck by treating it like mcdonald's chicken nuggets...not here.  he was please with his meal as well.

lastly, let me plea with you, if you go here on a group on (or at all....), please don't be jerks to the servers, just because you don't know what something is, or what it's for, don't mask your own insecurity with ugliness to them. --they mean to leave the ipads at the table, it's like their bar menu, if they offer you a black napkin cloth instead of the white ones on the table, it's because you're wearing black and the white ones can leave lint on your lovely outfit, duck is supposed to be trimmed in fat, the courses are supposed to be spaced out, yada yada (pick up a copy of emily post book of etiquette). ugh, you wouldn't believe the snippiness my husband and i observed from the table next to us.

We cashed in a gift certificate last night, and I am glad we didn't spend our own money. The wine list is very good. Our dinners were fine, but not great. Certainly not worth the $30 per price tag. And in this day of microbrews, any restaurant that starts its beer listing with a light mass-market beer should be ashamed of itself. Like other reviewers, I feel this is an ok restaurant with too-high prices.