text: Please take note: This is the first review of any type that I have ever written.\n\nKitchen 56 reminds me of a movie.  Of course, I will have to qualify that statement, but first let me say the following; in all my years of eating out Kitchen 56 gave me an absolute first.  In an attempt to be hip, if an 'open kitchen' concept can be considered as much, they offered me a glimpse into their inner workings.  What amazed me and my girlfriend was they weren't - working - I mean.   Each 'chef'   was inexplicably  staring out over the dining area, seemingly without a care in the world.  Now this place must seat 120 people with 3 'line cooks/chefs' so either they were incredibly good at their jobs or there was more to this story.   Unfortunately, before I could ponder this any further, we were seated and promptly attended by Sarah.  She was certainly the highlight of the evening and thus, through the act of choosing drinks and placing our order my previous observation evaporated.  Then the food arrived.   It was now that my previous observation bubbled back to the forefront.  The math is pretty simple.  Three line cooks + 120 people = multiple micro-wave ovens (which doesn't have to be a problem - or does it?).\n  \nI had the pork (tender)loin, which it wasn't.  It came with potatoes, which technically they still were, but not for much longer.  These things tasted like they had been re-heated, refrigerated, re-heated and refrigerated for about a week.  So in my attempt to eat those things, I inadvertently saved a complete stranger from a similar fate.  \"I took a potato for you!\" (bravo for my good deed)   Alas, Kitchen 56 staff will be forced to make another bushelful  for next week's victims.  No I don't mean patrons.  (too harsh - Monday and Tuesday probably patrons, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday - definitely  VICTIMS!!)  So one way or the other, everyone wanting to eat potatoes at Kitchen 56 will get an opportunity! \n\nI know it seems a little insane to talk about the potatoes, but here is the rub, my girlfriend's Mac and Cheese was prepared with the same loving care!  So here we are, full circle and Kitchen 56 still reminds me of a movie.  Remember a time when you couldn't wait to see a certain new release?  You know the one, the one you never saw because David Edelstein or Roger Ebert reviewed the film and said that \"__________(fill the blank with your favorite star) was sleep walking through his/her performance.   Guess what? KITCHEN 56 is that blank.  Wow!  And a last word to those guys staring off into space, the ones standing behind all that fancy commercial cooking equipment pretending to be cooks, don't let the door hit you on the way out.   \n\nNow it would be all well and good to blame the cook staff and they must shoulder most of the blame.  But I have to ask who is testing this menu?  I won't even start on the small salad (oh alright - fresh and easy - rinse before eating)  \"What we have here is a failure to communicate....\" or maybe \"This is a trickle down economics problem.\"   Be it a movie quotation or political rhetoric, either way..... Kitchen 56 you are a 1out of 56.