- 整體 2
- 食物 2
- 服務 2
- 氛圍 3
This restaurant was highly recommended by a friend, so my expectations were high. Too hight, it turns out. I was very disappointed. But let’s start with the positives! The ambience is hip and laidback, the serving staff are friendly. Now, the disappointments: our server lacked knowledge. She could not describe the fish (Red perch), nor give us a satisfactory explanation for why the white wine was fizzy. Given Arlo is a wine bar, she should have been able to explain that this is typical of organic wines, which I found out later by looking it up on the Internet. When my friend decided to opt for a different wine for her second glass, she just poured the new wine in the same dirty glass. Hmmm. A wine bar? Now, the food. The biggest disappointment of all. My carrot salad was just OK: the vinaigrette was too acidic and the taste of the pistachios had to compete with too many sesame seeds. I would have preferred it if the carrots were at room temperature rather than cold. As for the main dish, I just could not finish it. The red perch was well-cooked so the texture was very nice. But the taste was way off. It had that pungent metallic taste that one can get in white flesh fish when it is not fresh. The sauce was supposed to a lobster demi-glace. It was brown and salty, not refined in the slightest. I could not taste the lobster. The fennel was barely roasted and had little taste. I was quite envious of my friend’s husband who ordered the ossobuco and enjoyed it. Still, I will not be going back to try it out!