Do people come here thinking, \"It's a famous chef's restaurant and it's fancy and expensive so it must be good!\"? Because as far as I can tell, either over 700 other reviewers are taken by the novelty or I'm missing something. The two dishes I actually genuinely liked were the heirloom beet and chocolate bar for dessert, which had an almost silken texture and intriguing flavor, and the \ngreen papaya carpaccio as one of our appetizers, which was very tangy and bright. I don't know what happened to the rest of the menu. \n\nThe grilled skirt steak lyonnaise was great the first couple bites, but I soon realized the overabundance of the sickeningly sweet red wine jus, which overwhelmingly drenched everything underneath. The potatoes -- soaked, not a singly potato-y thing left about them. Not a jus-free spot remaining on anything edible. \nThe szechuan beef tartare was truly horrible. The first time I had tartare where I was strikingly aware I was eating raw beef. It had no other flavor, despite being mixed tableside with spices by the expeditor. We were asked how spicy we wanted it, we said very, so he added a ton and it still tasted of nothing but raw beef. \nThe duroc pork belly lo mein had entirely too much lo mein, was too sweet, too salty, too fatty, too saucy, too everything while still not tasting of anything decent! Just one big goop with no distinguishing flavors or textures. \nThe drink-ordering system is just strange and inefficient. You pick your drinks out on an iPad, but instead of zooming it off to the bartender like you assume it does, your server eventually comes and picks it up and puts it into the computer... so you think you ordered your drink 10 minutes ago, but you actually haven't until they come to take your order for them anyway. \n\nThe menu items are incohesive. We were missing silverware. Some food and drinks took forever to arrive while others arrived very quickly. There is a front bar area where people get drunk and yell at the TV all while you're spending over $200 on dinner for two, trying to enjoy a nice, peaceful evening out. This restaurant just makes no sense.
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