Let's go for the pros :
- If you are a fan of Starck design, you'll be in your element. Personally I found the decor gaudy and cheesy to say the least, but I understand that it can please some people. Besides I do not...go to a restaurant for the decor, but for the food only.
- albeit understaffed, the service was as good as the circumstances allowed it.
- and no matter how hard I try, I can't find anything positive to write anymore...
So, let's go for the negative :
- for starter : salmon 'new style'....which is basically a salmon sashimi. I rarely had salmon so tasteless. The dipping sauce did not change the poor tasting. Giving fancy names does not make the food taste better.
- for the main : a sea bream in a banana leaf... What a disappointment on all accounts : serving size ridiculously small (something close to a child serving ! I do not know where were the alleged 200gr of proteins, but they were certainly not in my plate... Because of my sport training I weigh all of my food, so I do know what 200gr of proteins look like...), tasteless tiny vegetables and rice rolls. But above all, the fish was soooo overcooked and to top it up so was the bowl of white rice !! How can you overcook some simple white rice so much ?? Even the apprentice is supposed to know how to cook some rice....especially in a french-asian fusion restaurant. Not only you have to order some extra rice if you don't want to leave the restaurant hungry, but it's not even eatable...
- I tried the black cod that my sister and her boyfriend took. And here again, the hero of the dish was dead, betrayed by some cruel overcooking sabotage. What makes it even more painful is to know that the black cod is a fish that is quite difficult to overcook (due to its high fat content), but Bon kitchen managed to do that. If you want to imitate Nobu and Nozomi, then, in order to compensate a lack of imagination, at the very least, do the recipe faultlessly....
- dessert : a poor lemon curd not even worth mentioning....
All in all : very expensive for some poor, tasteless, overcooked very mediocre food (I do not care about what the table next to me had, only what was served to me counted... and it was really not up to the par). For the same money, I can give you a list of dozens of gastronomic restaurants that are a gazillion times better and definitely worth trying.More