Nathan Green

Review of Harvest Restaurant

At our first visit to the venerable Harvest in man...

At our first visit to the venerable Harvest in many years, we were thoroughly pleased by new chef Tyler Kinnett's divinely balanced Gazpacho appetizer ($14) w/snappy lobster, avocado, lime creme fruit and mint and his flavor-laden Roobos Tea Marinated Duck Breast ($34) w/black rice, blackberries, pickled beet puree, pecans, summer beans and honey balsamic. Other, very good appetizers were the Housemade Charcuterie ($18) w/toasted, nicely garlic-ed bread, and Basil Ricotta Agnolotti pasta ($16) with squashes, tomato, corn puree and pine nuts. We shared a deconstructed Keylime Tart ($10) with creme fraiche mousse, basil swirl meringue, hibiscus marshmallow, olive oil cookie and pickled lemon chamomile crumble. While most of the unnecessarily deconstructed components were delicious, the "cookie" crust was thus exposed for the dull wafer-like non-entity that it really was. Pity that they were not presented as one traditional whole, so that the weakness of the crust could have been less glaring. In terms of the dessert menu as a whole, when is the mania for salted desserts going to end? There was just too much of it! The service was terrific, and the setting refreshingly comfortable.