d.o.c.

NOT a fan. we went there this past friday night for j's birthday dinner. mucho dinero for not good food. we unfortunately chose to do the tasting menu of 5 courses for $50 per person. to us, that's a LOT of money. j did the matched wines option for $35. i tasted all of them, and we found 3 of them barely drinkable. the first was actually a bourbon cocktail, which wasn't so bad. and the last one was another cocktail of muscat & other sweet things. the first actual wine had a grapefruit taste, and looked like urine. not the best way to begin a meal. the risotto was nothing amazing & a bit underdone. the morel mushrooms & broth that came with the asparagus & salmon poached in olive oil (tasted fishy) had no taste, no heft to it. the shell beans with the mutton & romaine were severely undercooked. there was only one tiny tiny pasta course that we had no complaints about. many different ideas that were carried out badly. the restaurant was tiny, and hot with the kitchen right out in the open. it was enjoyable to spend a long evening with my husband, but i would've preferred to not be stuck in the restaurant for so long. we had originally planned on going to fenouil, but friends told us that d.o.c. was great, & more worth the money. perhaps we'll go to fenouil for our anniversary... for now, i'm mourning the loss of the huge amount of money we wasted on that meal.

and they didn't remember or acknowledge that it was j's birthday, which i mentioned when making the reservation, and they repeated when confirming it. someone else got a candle in their dessert that evening at another table, but not j. :( boo. never again.