text: I just can't figure out how this place got so many stars by so many people. \n\nMy sis and I picked up our friend at the airport on friday night and we were hungry. So we looked up a good restaurant on trusty Yelp to help us decide. We fell on this place which got great reviews and seemed like it would be fun and delicious. \n\nWe found the place pretty quickly and stepped right in. We were quickly seated, but service was slow throughout. After about 10-15 min we finally got our drinks...OUR DRINKS. My companions got drinks and they tasted bitter. Not worth $10 in my opinion.\n\nThe food itself was a disappointment. We ordered their Korean short ribs, ginger mint duck salad, beach mushrooms, and chicken lollipops.\n\nMy issue is not the size of the dishes, we all knew what tapas are so we were already expecting small portions, but with those small portions and the amount of money we were paying we expected good food. Instead we got pretentious food with unbalanced flavor. If you're going to dress up my food, make sure it tastes as good as it looks.\n\n1. The Korean short ribs were okay except for the fact that it was drowned in a very sweet sauce. If the ribs were DRIZZLED with the sauce I think it would have been very successful.\n\n2. Ginger mint duck salad, I thought the duck was well cooked, but the sauce was overpowering and bitter.\n\n3. Chicken lollipops were way too salty. I had to drink water with every bite of the chicken.\n\n4. The only saving grace was the beach mushrooms. It was balanced and just plain delicious. It was a little awkward to eat, but I could easily get over that since the dish was such a treat. If all of my other dishes were as good as this one, I'd be raving about this place.     \n\nSo after all of this, we didn't even want dessert, which is a shame because I love dessert and it was my birthday. Poor excuse of a meal for the price. I expected more. Not sure if it's the prettiness of the place that people fall in love with, but for me, the food was not up to par.