The incompetence starts at the layout. There's not one good seat in this place. You're either next to the waiter station (water and register), the door, or the kitchen. We told them it was a special occasion when making the reservation but were seated with my wife facing the kitchen and me staring at a grotesque wrinkled cow painting.
Our waiter didn't know the specials. The bread was nearly stale. The quail in the soup I ordered was so poorly butchered that each bite had large shards of bone (not just one simple mistake as the waiter would have me believe, but three out of three bites, large bones). To make up for it, our waiter brought me what he described as their ""usual everyday soup"". Great. When paying for the tasting menu you don't want to be stuck with a sub-par bisque. The linguine and clams tasted like it was made from boxed linguine and overcooked, while the veal was luke warm and mediocre, inexplicably served with a corn pancake.
The only reason any stars were received is because the lamb my wife got - to replace the terrible linguine - was great. But even that took way too long to come out.
The dessert was shaped like a phallus, disgusting, and took way too long to get to us.
The check had to be redone three times.
If they're trying to be upscale, they need to rework everything from the idiot in the kitchen who can't butcher a quail to the rude tarts working the front desk to the moron who can't memorize one off-the-menu special or get a simple check right.
There are many, much better restaurants in Houston.
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