This place was rec?d by a friend as ""one of his favorite places"" so I was excited when my girl and I finally had a chance to try it. We were seated promptly and given our allotted 1 piece of bread. We decided against the $1350 cabernet and instead chose lowly glasses of shiraz for $17 each. Crowd was mostly 50+ who looked like they just finished 9 holes at the countryclub. Lots of sweaters tied around necks. We ordered apps + mains. Arugula salad with walnut vinaigrette & a ribollita(sp?) soup of cannelloni beans, toasts covered in parmesan cheese and some kind of greens. The soup was very thick and too salty although overall it was the most edible thing we ordered, and was the only thing we finished. The salad was AWFUL and inedible. I have a very adaptable palate- but the flavor of the dressing was horrid, it had a very ""earthy"" (NOT in a good way) taste, like dirt/mold if you can imagine that. Both of us ate a few bites and wound up leaving most of the $15 mess to the busboy. We then waited 20 mins for our 2nd courses to arrive. I ordered a striped bass which was the ""special"", served with clams and roasted fennel, and she chose a skate fish with beets & sunchokes. Both dishes were small for $31. This turned out to be a blessing in disguise! My fish had a very strong/bad musky odor and didn?t taste fresh at all. The clams had a ""sudsy"" butter sauce on them and tasted OK at first but had an aftertaste that reminded me of dishwashing soap. (I think that they spilled some in the broth!) The fennel was good but everything was drenched in butter & salt. I left 3/4 of my fish untouched. My girl?s dish was a little better but also way too salty and had a strange odor. This place is trying too hard to impart exotic flavors to their dishes and is missing the mark, resulting in hideous frankenstein-like combinations. The damage was $150 for 2 of us, which did NOT include dessert. We both left hungry and feeling sick. I will never go back to Hearth!
Pros: very expensive wine list will impress your snooty countryclub buddies
Cons: food is overpriced and mostly awful
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