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Originally Posted by citanul
We had something like 11 plates of food + 6 drinks + tax/tip for $260, so it would be hard for me to feel like the value was off if the food were good, personally.
Ok so this isn't what I remember at all...my recollection is something like 5-6 plates of food and maybe...4 drinks? For not much less than you paid? I guess my memory could be off or we could have gotten just the really expensive items but your total looks much more reasonable than my felt (could also be that we had some misses on food that made it feel more expensive). I promise I'm not usually one to be frustrated at price and 260 for dinner for the wife and myself is usually not a shock at all--this one just stood out for some reason.
On a related note: Wherewithall. Tried last night and thought it was good, but not great. It was the second evening open I believe so service was still having some issues that could probably be forgiven. The space was nice but a little cramped. Really funny moment when I walked into the non-single use bathroom marked 'urinal/toilet' and went to the urinal. There was someone in the toilet, and when I started washing my hands a very nice and slightly embarrassed woman walked out of the stall. I asked if these were unisex bathrooms (they were thank goodness) and we had a nice laugh over her not wanting to come out while I was relieving myself.
It's a '4 course' tasting for $65 with an optional $45 wine pairing. There were 3 amuses and two of them were standouts of the night (a corn beignet with bouillabaisse dipping sauce and a white water kimchi broth served cold with fermented yuzu drizzle). Overall definitely worth trying but may want to wait a bit to let some of the kinks get worked out. Our server was overall decent but didn't have a great handle on the pairings and we didn't get our dessert pairing until we had almost finished eating it (it had ice cream otherwise I would have waited).
Total was...270ish with tax which included 2 coffees as well as the meal and pairings.