Novel

Novel reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

1. CA

   ClaA

   Kansas City43 reviews

   4.0

   Reviewed on March 30, 2019

   1. Overall 4

   Love the space -- lovely tile work, great bar, nice dining area, open kitchen... can be a tad loud but lots of fun. Great service Very creative menu w/ lots of options for big and small appetites. Very Good Food! Will be back.
   

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   BobE

   Kansas City2 reviews

   5.0

   Reviewed on March 18, 2019

   1. Overall 5

   Nice dining experience. Unique menu selections. Craft cocktails are good. Service is excellent. Expect it to be a little on the loud side with their concrete floors.
   

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   sailorM

   Kansas City15 reviews

   2.0

   Reviewed on November 10, 2018

   1. Overall 2

   At its new location the restaurant with wall tiles, cement floors, open kitchen and bare packed tables is unsuitable for civilized conversation. The squash soup and scallops (at $8 a piece) are OK but unremarkable. The duck breast with fishy tasty and served cold was chewy and below expectations of this simple preparation . The wine list follows the exaggerated practice of exorbitant pricing over the cost of retail. The misappropriation of definitions was obvious in their ceviche, tomato ceviche? Mexicans and Peruvians must cringe at this travesty. The dessert offering is limited to cakes and other baked goods while their bread portions are stingy and a type of bread that was too moist. Service was uneven. the wine server great but the hostess extremely ornery. Since we had to wait to be seated, even tough the tables were empty, until all four of us had arrived, had the opportunity to watch and hear her and it was not just with us. Her manners were uniformly improper of a place with pretensions of fine dining. Moving away from the rickety old house has improved its higiene (not counting the unhealthy habit of plain wooden table surfaces where silverware rests) but the essence of a restaurant , its food, has not changed much from the old ways. It is below average for a place which seems to aspire as a fine dining experience destination restaurant in a location somewhat isolated of population ( On a Friday evening we could no detect humans nearby except those coming or leaving the premises) and charm but, with plenty of parking spaces.
   

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