“Brix ... is a a house not of bricks but of STRAW”
Arriving for dinner at Brix on a recent Monday evening we were greeted by a none too happy and an even some what sour hostess (o.k. then we all have our bad day’s.) Awaiting us was an almost empty dining room. Seating us to her was a chore with which she wanted no part. The hostess lead us to a seat near what appeared to be an exit. We asked for a vacant banquette which she with some apparent attitude acceded to our request. We were then left with menu, minus the wine list for 15 minutes (with not so much as a drop of water.) From there we proceeded rapidly downhill. Salads were less than o.k. The duck confit salad with poached pear was ill prepared and the confit tasted faintly of soap. Additionally, the blue cheese was either off or old or both (the blue cheese was definitely NOT Maytag or Point Reyes as promised.) The promised candied walnuts were also missing in action from the salad. The wine we had chosen was only available in half bottles a size not foreign to us even though the menu said 750ml. We would have taken 2 btls in place of one larger bottle but an offer to pay the difference was not forthcoming. This resulted in a total difference in sales to the restaurant of $95 when we elected to purchase a different and less expensive bottle of vino. The Rib Eye Steak was the most nicely done of the dishes but promised accompaniments were missing. Substituting for the sides were the sides marked for the filet. Another disappointment, the shrimp and pasta-whatever dish was disgusting, with the pasta tasting more like paste than pasta, over cooked by a bored grillman and served on a plate cooled earlier by the evening breezes. Monaco our server was AWOL most evening electing to do something who-knows-what but definitely he did not want to NOT serve that evening. We chose to pay our bill upon finishing dinner as even though a remembered dessert dish from a past visit was available we did not feel our experience warranted flirting with an additional disaster. As we left the restaurant my wife noticed a large stain on the back of my trouser leg. Upon further examination it was discovered to be a chocolate toffee-like substance picked up from the uncleaned banquette seating area. Someone call in Ty Pennington, this place needs an Extreme Makeover as it’s time to be demolished has come and gone long, long ago.
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