Subject: No-wires, no hook + no digging straps

From: "Genie Zip Bra" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 13:43:28 -0700

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experience was great (partly due to my date of course) but we both enjoyed it immensely and it lived up to it's hype. Well done! Luckily I came here with friends. Friends who ate here before. Friends who ordered all three breads, 13 dishes to share, and all four desserts. Perfect for six people. Maybe perfect for one person, if your idea of a good meal is one that can be equated to the sensation of swimming in a pile of gold and yelling, "I'm rich! I'm rich!" It was that yummy. Not a dud in the bunch. I waited many months to get in and all that melted away with the first bite of the green beans (surely you've heard about them? They must come from a crop of green beans watered with love and fed the innocence of puppies, and that's just the quality of bean, not the preparation, which will seduce you in such a manner that you must explain to someone why you look perfectly happy to have a pile of them on your lap.). And the escargot ravioli. And the scallops with duck. And the pork sh
ank with kimchee. I could go on, but the seasonal nature of the place will probably guarantee some of these will be gone by the time you get there, replaced with other gems that will fill their shoes most generously. Go and eat. You'll spend less than you expect, including tax and tip. You'll have a great time. Just don't expect to hear your tablemates--the music is deafeningly loud. (Seriously, Izard--it's *unpleasantly* loud. Why?) But it won't matter, as you'll probably want your friends to keep their talking holes closed while you savor away. Really good.... if you love pork. And 500 servers per table. And more pork. With all the hype, I had to try this place, but as someone who does not eat pork, my options were extremely limited. We went with a group of 10, and we decided to order 3 things each and share amongst everyone. Three each? At these prices?? I was expecting a lot bigger portions, but they are almost tapas-sized. The seafood dishes were spectacular, but I literally on
ly got one bite of each (so, like $12 worth of each...). I loved the wine I tried and my friends had a great variety of beers to choose from. But what drove me crazy is the amount of staff constantly at our table. Yes, attentive service is GREAT and often hard to find these days. But it got to a laughable point when someone would fill up my water glass every two sips, and THREE times we had to stop a buser from trying to clear a plate we weren't done with (wait! That's there's only five bites worth of that dish and you're taking away a third of it!). Plus, with how packed tight we were (and seated right against the cooking station), there was already a TON of traffic around all sides of our table, but I got so annoyed in having to bob and weave every four seconds for another buser to reach over me for something else (which, again, we weren't done with). I could barely have a conversation with the people next to me because there was another