David Snowball

Review of Duck City Bistro

I had my first meal at Duck City's predecessor, Ch...

I had my first meal at Duck City's predecessor, Charles Michel, 30 years ago. This was my last meal at Duck City.

The restaurant has long sported "A" list pretensions - a menu of exalted foods with no posted prices - but with second tier execution. We dined in late May and experienced a series of culinary misfires from bread that was delivered to the table mostly crushed with a single floret of butter to lobster bisque with a piece of plastic floating in it and a horseradish crusted salmon with very little salmon character left. Death by Chocolate seemed to be a defrosted dessert.The staff, perhaps newly hired, seemed inexperienced, forgetful and confused.

But, by far, my greater reservation is about the facility's apparently careless approach to the public health crisis. As we entered we were the only people wearing masks. The wait staff maintained neither distance nor face covering. While the tables started 6-ft apart, when a large party arrived a second table was promptly jammed in, placing us within 2 ft of a party of 8. When we left we had to weave our way through a maskless crowd to exit the restaurant. It was a terrible look and left us profoundly uncomfortable.