What's more, Prentice and general manager Timothy Ward promise live entertainment six nights a week. They're paired with an intensely powerful pineapple salsa and a slick orange syrup so herbescent, it takes our breath away. Sweet shrimp surrender. Devastatingly divine delicacies. So Duet is not for the food Luddite, nor for the lyrically challenged.
Flavors are powerful, sometimes overpowering, and in a few cases even discordant.
That Maytag blue rules, heaped heavily as it is on an otherwise butter-tender prime tenderloin, it too atop a boisterous bordelaise sauce. The Marriage of Vigaro. The Clash of the Bitings, yet, save for the duck, each works fine on its own. We sit below one of those decadent red-velvet booths, sinking in and watching the staff flow effortlessly through Duet. In the early going, the service is as fine-tuned as any now playing.