This review is only for the eton mess, but what a unique and great eton mess it is.
The dessert comes served in a globe-shaped strawberry meringue with marshmallows, fresh raspberries, and lime meringue pieces inside. It is topped with a warmed strawberry cream sauce, which smells unbelievably great. The server pours a bit of the sauce on top after he brings the dessert to the table (when the ball is still unopened) and then you can pour the rest throughout the course of eating it as you crack through. It is small, but it’s delicious. Elegant, unique, creative.
The only thing I was apprehensive about before going was the attitude this restaurant could have (as this attitude is pervasive at that many restaurants of this caliber). It’s expensive, it’s upscale, and a lot of times that translates into rude, impersonal, stuffy, and lame. This restaurant, though, had character. Yes it’s old school, upscale, and still a bit stuffy in the sense that the waiters are overly polite, very serious, and the food is over-priced. But the place still maintains personality through the fun wall paper, décor, colors, and dishes. The restaurant is decorated in blue and teal with some quirky designs on the wall. And, they have a “press for champagne” button at each table that you can literally press for champagne to immediately be brought over. We asked about it and apparently it gets used quite regularly.
The tables, are marble as is much of the bathroom, which is located downstairs by the entrance. There are a whole row of individual stall bathrooms for your use, all very clean and certainly flashy. There is also another dining area downstairs, which is much less calm and much more bustling than the main dining area upstairs. It boasts a full bar as well.
The dishes and cocktail options here are creative, well presented, and not outrageously expensive for the type of place this restaurant is. If I wanted a fancy, but calm dinner in a more traditional setting, I’d give this place a try because it’s a bit more innovative than other restaurants in the same category.
But if you don’t want to eat a meal here, then just go for the eton mess. It’s really worth trying.
