We ate at this pricey restaurant a few nights ago and chose it because of the recent great review in the Washington Post. All started off well-- very pleasing decor, soft music, curtained booths along the walls. Wine list was great, the menu looked impressive and the wines the server recommended were very good. My "artisanal cheese appetizer" was excellent-- the textures, flavors and colors of the various cheeses, cherries in bourbon sauce, blue berries and truffle honey playing off each other made for a very sensual experience. Things were looking great and I was anticipating the main course

My wife ordered crab cakes, which she thought were excellent.

With high hopes I ordered the $37 dollar New York strip steak which came with a mushroom porter sauce. I was not happy when the huge hunk of meat arrived cold and covered with an equally cold and lifeless sauce. Back it went to the kitchen, to reemerge a few minutes later barely luke warm; I was not about to try for a third time. I poked at it a little but, it was a lost cause.

We did, unfortunately stay for an apple-berry cobbler type dessert topped with ice cream. Again Eden failed. Very little apple or berry filling but lots and lots of hard and dry cobbler topping.

Ambiance, wine list and menu notwithstanding, from my point of view, if a restaurant can't even serve its food hot despite two attempts, it has failed. That Eden charged a premium price added insult to injury.