Le Bistro Mediterranean

First impressions count!  Our reunion group (6) came down to HH for a weeks stay. We were told to try the LeBistro Mediterranean so I made a resv for the next night . Unfortunately one of our group became ill. We then thought we'd change our resv for a day later.  I called an hour prior to our resv. time and said to the gentleman who answered..." I'm sorry but I had a resv. for 6 people at 6pm and I will have to cancel." Before I had a chance to rebook he said, " oh that's too bad ", and hung up!  Needless to say...we are going elsewhere.

My spouse and I decided to come here based upon the online menu of food and wine list. Unfortunately, the wine list is not the same in the restaurant nor do they offer all the items on the menu.

We tried 2 samples of red wines by the glass and both tasted sour.  We then ordered a half bottle of malbec hoping it would be better since not already opened.  It was ok but far too warm as they keep their wine bottles out in the open restaurant on standing shelves and the restaurant was quite warm, certainly not cellar temperature.

The food was variable.  Spouse had a crab and avocado cold salad which was very good with fresh nice lump crab but the dressing was very thick like 1000 Island dressing. Chicken liver pate was okay without much flavor; served with thin toast slices which were so thin they crumbled when trying to spread the pate.

The Greek salad served with the entrees was very good with a flavorful vinaigrette.

Entrees were (1) veal piccata which came in a sauce which tasted like a cross between piccata and marsala(some lemon taste but also sweet and some capers).
The meat was overdone and dry.
(2) tagine lamb curry with couscous which was billed as spicy but tasted quite bland. It was a small portion with about 8 cubes of lamb several of which had gristle and fat. I have cooked better lamb in my Crockpot. It was definitely overpriced for the portion size.

Our server was friendly and fairly attentive though she did not seem to know much if anything about wine.

Overall, we would not return and don't recommend this restaurant.

WOW! was I expecting more! I went into this place expecting great food, what I got was not bad, but, REALLY BAD! a friend and I went in for lunch, the menu looked more like a late fall, early winter menu. With the likes of leg of lamb with root vegetables and braised lamb shank with mashed potatoes. My friend ordered the Greek Salad with grilled chicken, I ordered tried the lamb shank. Both dishes were completely bad. The service is terrible, there were only 2 tables there at a little after 1 pm. But, we still waited almost 5 mins. Just to be seated. Then the waitress we had took about 10 mins to get to the table with menus. There were what seemed to be a manager and owner in the other room just sitting with drinks and they were just chatting , but they never made an appearance! Even though the one waitress seemed to be slammed. Albeit with only 3 tables. After we ordered, we sat and waited almost 20 minutes for our food. So we started to talk about the decor, it looks like something out of the 70's totally outdated, very dirty/cluttered bottle upon bottle of wine strewn about, this place looked like it could close for a month, and still need to be cleaned. When we got our food, well, let me say this... I will not ever return. It was as bad as the decor and totally overpriced. My question is... If the owner and manager are there just shooting the bull, why should the wait staff care? This place is a mess!