We went here for breakfast with a friend of ours and clearly we should not pick breakfast places when we're hungry. Blech!
As soon as we entered my friend was put off by the very dingy feel of the place. We really should have left as soon as we had a moment to glance at the menus but hunger ruled and we stayed.
The coffee was mediocre at best and no one enjoyed their food. How hard can it be? Breakfast food!! You're just cooking eggs and toast and making a decent hollandaise sauce. Nope...not here. I won't even go into what we ate because it all tasted the same and it all tasted MEH.
Xmas eve 2012. Prix fixe menu. I should have read this as a warning sign.
I cannot begin to tell you how awful my experience was so I will only hit on a few lowlights.
ALL of the food was prepared in advance and then destroyed while reheated for service.
$80.00 for awful crabckakes with a salad and dessert.
One dessert, creme brulee, was brulee'd on the surface and liquid underneath.
After 3 attempts to find one that was properly set we gave up.
Hostess went home while the restaurant was half full. No one to talk to except the waiter-who was also the busboy.(he was great by the way).
If noone wanted to work Xmas eve then they should not have been open. Instead we got a few entrees to choose from and an overpriced awful meal.
What a shame. Used to be so good. And what a lovely and historic setting that they have ruined.