Ziggy The Dog

Review of Lacroix at the Rittenhouse

Decent. While the atmosphere and presentation live...

Decent. While the atmosphere and presentation lived up to our expectations (we went to celebrate a special occasion back in January), the food itself felt only okay. I think we only liked one dish out of the whole course menu. As for the rest, either the flavor or texture were off, or it just felt like "I kind of get what the chef was going for, but it's not quite there." To anyone to suggest we just don't get French cuisine or modern fusion cuisine, we lived in Tokyo for 8 years, and anyone who's ever been to Japan knows that they worship food (not just Japanese cuisine, but all food, including world cuisines.) There is a restaurant/cafe/bar on almost every floor of each building around any given subway station, just around our subway station there were about 500-600 total of various food establishments - from cheap rice bowl type (cheap, but yummy!) to authentic Indian, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Lebanese, Romanian, and much much more. But French cuisine occupies a special place - many Japanese, we found, love it! And the competition in Tokyo between high-end French restaurants is insane. All of this info to make one point - in our 8 years in Tokyo, we've tried enough to become a little more literate about authenticity and quality of food. It is great to have traditionally made authentic dish, it is also great to see chefs experiment with ingredients, flavors, and textures. Lacroix for us did not hit the right spot with either (minus one star), and while the staff was courteous enough when they finally arrived, we did feel forgotten about few times (it was not a busy night, filled to maybe 40-50% of seating capacity), therefore minus one more star, hence a total of three.
Edit 2019/07/22
Quick response to our review much appreciated. Corrected to four stars.