text: I struggle on how to rate this place I want to give it a stars based on how perfectly each and every dish of the chef tasting was prepared However the concept of nearly every dish I eat crashed and burned in agonizing misery I want to give you a but to be fair it is a nnIn sum perfectly cooked food executed through strange conceptsnnConsistency in cooking is hard to find Therefore awards are created based on the idea of serving consistently perfectly cooked meals However one cannot ignore a concept that should have never come into fruitionnnOur waitress was very nice and knowledgeable I have nothing but positive things to say about her servicesnnWe ordered the course chefs tasting my husband Jared and myself Jared is not picky One can pretty much feed him anything and he will eat it He resisted the idea of ordering the chefs tasting because the dishes seemed off Very telling I examined the chefs tasting and agreed I have been proven wrong by chefs before At times I have ordered the tasting menu at various places and have been blown away We decided to be reckless and ordered the tasting for twonnFirst dish salted meats and olives I was in heaven I love good salumi and loved the duck speck Served with toasted baguettes and an amazing subtle and sweet mustard Delicious nnThe second course was a potato samosa I liked that they fried it within an egg roll wrapper But the filling was sparse and more so was the lack of punch found in the spices Perhaps I am too biased My husband and I make and eat out Indian food frequently This is the least flavorful samosas either of us have ever eatennnThe third dish was a humongous beet salad I enjoyed the trio variety of gigantic beats served upon a gargantuan mound of lettuce I appreciate a nice serving size as well as anyone But it seemed they served us a salad meant for people not I would have rather had more cured meat or cheeses than a xlarge saladnNevertheless the salad was delicious The beets were amazingnnThe fourth dish was the BBQ blueberry shrimp It was this dish that caused great concern from both of us We almost did not order the chef tasting because of this dish and now I wish I would have followed our instincts The shrimp was moist tender delicious Perfectly cooked Thank GOD the BBQ blueberry sauce was not directly on the shrimp else we would not have eaten the dish One slightly tastes the blueberry as it is drowning within a sea of chipotle I love chipotle like the next person but this sauce was gross and overtaken by the chipotlennThe fifth dish was a pulled pork and pork loin concoction Another great example of a concept gone bad The pork loin was slightly overcooked and underflavored The bed of pulled pork was under the pork loin It was basking in a lovely tasting gravy however the appearance was not appetizing It gave the impression of predigested pulled pork as it was swimming in a dark gravy Although it tasted goodlove the presentation was a huge failure nnNext we had the cheese plate shakes head Now please understand I LOVE LOVE LOVE cheese I cannot tell you how it pains me to critique this negatively It was not that the blue cheese tasting plate was not amazing IT WAS But it felt silly Why only blue cheese Such a strong tasting cheese to serve alone especially after such a strong and overpowering BBQ sauce Perhaps make it one blue cheese and something else The sharpness of the cheeses was not too much for blue cheese lovers as I am one It was just too much even with the honey and candied nuts to follow an overpowering chipotlennLastly we eat DIVINE desserts Eye appealing delicious and flavorful My only complaint I wanted more The portion was perfect I love all of them profiterole peanut butter fudge and petit foursI think I might return but only for coffee and dessertnnYay I wanted to share three more things They validate parking which is great Two we sat at the gnat fly section Apparently even the manager was aware of this The table we sat at is known for attracting fruit flies Quite the distraction and another reason it only receives stars Lastly the manager WAS seeking feedback When he asked my husband said everything was okay and did not offer our honest criticisms When I asked Jared why he did not he said he just wanted out of there I would have spoken up but I wanted to leave too I think I wrote a detailed enough honest critique that the manager would not have gained anything more from talking to us directly