This is the first restaurant review I've written, ...

This is the first restaurant review I've written, because I've never before felt compelled to let people know how memorably bad a meal and restaurant experience could be. I'll describe our meal from the end to the beginning, because dessert was as bad as the beginning. We had 3 different desserts - all of them tasteless. Such a disappointment! It's hard to imagine how banana cream pie could be tasteless, but it was. The fish (halibut) was overcooked, dry, salty and tasteless. The pasta was incredibly salty. I've never sent a dish back before, but the amount of salt made the pasta inedible. The caesar salad was bland. To make matters worse, we were treated poorly when we first came in. Although I had called ahead to ask for menu accommodations for my son, and was told there would not be any problem because a broad menu would be available, when we arrived we were told we had to eat in the noisy downstairs tavern, rather than the nice, quiet dining room, because what he wanted was not on the prix fixe menu. I suppose I should have known that an expensive New Year's Eve prix fixe meal could be less than stellar, but this beginning of 2020 will be memorable because of the tasteless meal and the poor experience we had. To top it off, it was the most expensive meal we've ever had - and we eat out often at gourmet restaurants.