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Disappointing Rialto Restaurant Week Experience
Perhaps you are right and I should have said something last night. I think part of it was that it was my first dish of the evening and I thought it was maybe a fluke and the rest of the meal would be significantly better.
I don't mean this review to be scathing because as I mentioned, the desserts were good and the entrees were just uninteresting, but not bad, so that didn't merit a complaint.
My point of this posting is more for a reflection on what higher-end restaurants such as Rialto choose to do for Restaurant Week. I had high hopes for this restaurant and left feeling that it was much more ordinary than I expected. I know it's Restaurant Week so they are catering more to the masses, but also a lot of people who care about food take advantage of Restaurant Week as a way to explore restaurants they haven't tried yet. So, I usually hope the restaurant's RW menu is a decent reflection of the tastes and feel of the restaurant on a regular week.
Disappointing Rialto Restaurant Week Experience
I thought about it, but I usually tend to feel bad about making complaints unless it's something really atrocious, such as hair in the food or really over/underdone meat. I know complaints bother servers and I didn't really have the guts to bring it up.
Disappointing Rialto Restaurant Week Experience
So, I feel obligated to share my disappointment in my experience last evening at Rialto for Restaurant Week. This was my first time at the restaurant and I left with my only positive feeling being that I was glad I didn't pay full-price for their regular menu.
For starters I had the mushroom risotto which was so undercooked the rice was crunchy.
My husband had the gnocchi which was gummy and uninteresting.
For entrees I had the pork loin which was three thin slices of underseasoned pork with a few green beans, undercooked, gummy polenta, and a green mustard sauce. My husband had the char which was fine, but ordinary.
The desserts were the best thing about the meal, but by that point I was still hungry and underwhelmed. I'm not someone who needs to stuff myself, but this meal was unsatisfying both in portion size and in orginiality.
Maybe Rialto was just skimping for Restaurant Week, but then I question what's the point of doing it if you aren't going to make the dishes interesting enough that diners want to come back again to pay full-price?
Definitely wishing I had tried T.W. Food instead.
