We all have those restaurants where the first time you went, you were so amazed and pleased that you simply lodge the meal away in the “Never Forget” corner of your mind.
It had been 10 years since last I ate at this restaurant. It really was an amazing meal with great atmosphere. This past New Year’s we went to Sonoma to celebrate. I wanted to check out the Girl & The Fig, so we did. What a disappointment! The scene was a madhouse, the hostesses were clueless on how to negotiate so many people.
The signature salad was all arugula and half-a-fig which I had recalled as fabulous but was now an arugula forest and no fig — what happened? The entree were uneven. Mine, the seafood stew, was good, but the saffron overwhelmed the fish; my love had the chopped liver, and it was mediocre at best.
Even worse? It was a cold night in Sonoma and they put us by a plastic curtain where the wind slowly crept in and froze our legs. Didn’t freeze our taste buds though. What kind of quality restaurant puts a table by the cold plastic shield? Sad to see such a place lose its edge.
Better to go across the street to El Dorado…now that was a superb meal!
Outspoken Traveler 