Overrated. Overpriced. Oversalted, Not great food....

Overrated. Overpriced. Oversalted, Not great food. Not romantic. Not my favorite.

I don't understand how you can say romantic with in a bright room with large tables where you can hear everyone. The table was such that I was as close to my wife as I was to the guy at the next table. Several people were annoying loud. There was no music till a just ok singer started in the bar. The candle light was a cheap looking shot glass with a warming candle in it. The linens were white on white industrial bleached. The place setting is a picture in a frame. All together, not romantic.

As for the food. The steak tartare was a do-it-yourself kit. I go out when I don't want to cook. The salad greens were so fresh they still had all the stems on them. The beet salad was 1/2 a beet. The salty scallops arrived in a dog dish with a cheese-wiz sauce. A free shot of salty soup was served on the picture frame.

The steak arrived with the wine reduction in a little pitcher and was then liberally applied. The duck seamed rare. The portion size was good. No need to reach for the salt shaker. The steak knives were odd but cut well - which was needed.

The service was odd also. No one offered to take a coat. We were taken directly to the dinning room. We were rushed to give a drink order. There was only one drink menu in the wine book which I handed to my wife as the waiter was describing each of 10 drinks poorly from memory. My wife ordered her drink but I needed the book back. I finally just order a glass of wine as the waiter stood there even though I was going to order a bottle. The bottle prices were triple retail anyway. So, the waiter finally took the coatwhen asked - after we got our drinks. In contrast to this, when dessert finally came and we wanted a second coffee, he was nowhere to be found.

The other resturants in this group are better. When does a group become a chain?