This is a fairly new restaurant. It opened in 2022. It is a small one room restaurant/bar. It is nicely decorated and feels nicer than just a regular bar, but it is still small.
We arrived at 5 (when they opened) because we had tickets to the Fox and wanted to have plenty of time for dinner. When we arrived there were two TVs over the bar that were on to football games. I think that immediately makes a place drop down to not "fine dining." But I do have to say, they turned them both off at 5:30. I don't really know why they have them anyway.
This place is very into farm-to-table. They know where their beef, lettuce, etc. comes from. I know that is important to some people, but sometimes I find it over done. In this case, because they want to know where everything comes from, I think it limits their menu. The menu seemed small. I couldn't decide between 2 "small plates" (that were NOT small in price) or a seafood pasta. I didn't really want pasta, but I didn't want to spend $46 on my entrees. But that's what I ended up doing. I got scallops that had supremed oranges around the plate and a small mixed green salad with the orange juice turned into a vinaigrette salad dressing in the middle of the plate. The scallops were WONDERFUL. The salad was too wet and the dressing didn't have any taste.
My second course was mussels in a shallot/tomato broth. Again they were all over telling me where the scallops and tomatoes were from. The mussels were good, the broth was OK. I actually wished the tomatoes were a little smaller or cut in 1/2. Mussels are just so weird because they look like a lot but really are only a few bites of food. The grilled toast that come on top was buttered and salted in some way and was too salty for my taste.
I would totally get the scallops again, but I would ask for them as an entree with some sort of starch (probably potatoes of some sort, as I didn't see any rice or risotto on the menu) and a vegt.
We ordered a bottle of wine. Mike and I have finally determined that we need to get wine in the 4.0 rating on our Vivino wine app. When we spend more for wines that are 4.3+, we don't necessarily like it any more. This one was a 4.3. It was good, but not $25 better.
Mike started the evening with soup...which is very odd for him. He is NOT a soup person. The soup of the day was a creamy chicken soup with shredded chicken and chopped spinach. He really liked it. It had a lot of herbs in it.
For dinner he ordered a filet, mashed potatoes and broccoli. The prices for steaks were not on the menu. It just said "Market Price." I don't like that. No one wants to sound like a cheap skate and ask the price. It was in the $65 range. He said is steak was VERY good and the person really knew how to cook it and had the salamander type grill to cook it properly. But that was still pretty darned expensive.
As you can see, there is very little brown parts to Mike's steak. It was charred on the top and the rest was pink and red. This is a true medium rare steak. He wished only for a little more au jus to use like gravy on his potatoes.
We would come back to this place, but we are more educated, now. We know how much things are and we know that we can put things together on the menu with other things. I hope the chef continues to add to the menu and it doesn't stay the same all the time. Next time, we would give ample time to eventually try dessert (we ran out of time for that).
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