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I really wanted to like Cheuvront--the idea of having an urbane spot in which to explore a wide range of wines and uncommon cheeses was very appealing. If I had stuck with that I might have had a very different experience. Unfortunately, I tried to range farther afield and came away feeling like everything except the wine and cheese came from Costco. Cheuvront gets predictably high marks for the range of the wine list and the varieties of cheeses--if Wallace and Gromit decided to move to the desert and become social drinkers, here is where they would do it. I took the menu's advice and paired a Queso Iberico cheese plate with a pinot noir (Cartlidge & Browne '07) and liked both very much. Actually, I liked the cheese. The rest of the "plate"--almonds, dried cranberries, and a few grapes in their twilight years--evoked no real response at all. My accomplice in dining chose the Pascual Toso Malbec '07 (accurately described as a full-bodied red) and summer salad. The wine was great--complex and dry without being acerbic--but the salad tasted like the chef had just given two weeks' notice. The chicken was bland, the "mixed field greens" had clearly just come out of a bag, and the roasted shallot white balsamic vinaigrette was the middle school marching band of dressings: yes, I recognized what was being attempted but still felt bullied by it. The pumpkin bread pudding was good, but not worth making a trip for. The latte and cappuccino were fine, but here's a tip for the kitchen: if you want coffee to stay hot, warm the cup first. By the time our friendly-yet-overwhelmed server came back with the cinnamon, the drinks were lukewarm. Speaking of service, let's not. We got menus, we got food, we got the bill. We also waited a lot, heard several rationalizations for said waiting times, and had to repeat requests. We spent two hours for a snack-sized meal that required no cooking except for the bread pudding that had obviously been made much earlier. If I could send one message to Mr. Cheuvront, it would be this: It doesn't require any particular talent to sell good wine and good cheese at above-average prices. It does, however, require talent and skill and desire to create an experience that keeps folks coming back. If I want to drink good wine in a mediocre setting, I'll buy a bottle at AJ's and smuggle it into Denny's.
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A.