Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Restaurant Week D.C.: Teatro Goldoni

http://www.teatrogoldoni.com/

We went for dinner at Teatro Goldoni last night at 7 pm and were looking forward to our first dining experience there. My champagne was flat (was exchanged for a fresh one), the salmon was overcooked and dry, the desserts were nice looking but very average in taste. On the way out, my jacket was held out for me to grab and put on by myself- no help offered. Through the glass window, we never saw big activity in the kitchen, although the restaurant was half full when we left.
This was certainly not the food experience I had expected from this place. I retained a feeling of being mob that is allowed into the holy halls of Teatro Goldoni, and is being fed mediocre food with an emphasis on quick turnaround of tables.
If this is the spirit, why does this restaurant even participate in restaurant week? I thought the idea of restaurant week was to make the cooking style and quality of the restaurant available to a greater public?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

nk, you are so right about Teatro. I was there this week too.

Gordon Ramsey would have been yelling at that chef...he was standing around looking confused. I saw no cooking going on. Maybe they were just microwaving my dry, tasteless salmon?

Maybe they just don't care about the RW bargain hunters. However, I'm not willing to pay the regular price to find out if they can do better.