The food at Esca is an accomplishment and the kitchen staff can be proud. Previous patrons remarked that they were seated buy the noisy bar. Surprise, we were seated beside the bar. Thankfully, our corpulent host rectified the situation. Esca should not use advance reservations as an opportunity to fill up their worst tables. The interior was uninteresting. The heavily up sold $30 per person Crudo tasters plate is laughable. Does sushi become exponentially more expensive when you poor olive oil on it? We enjoyed the sea bass in salt crust. Thankfully, the whole fish survived the mangling it underwent by the wait staff. They de-boned the creature in the restaurant for our viewing pleasure. It was comical; three people hacked away for several minutes in a futile effort to display dining panache. Curly & Moe would have been proud.
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