Blue Bore

On New Years Eve, I went with my whole family to the Blue Boar Inn for an early prix fixe meal and celebration.

The Blue Boar has spectacular atmosphere. Everything from the decor on the outside to the interior antler chandeliers looks like an Austrian Inn. They had cool pewter plates with the restaurant logo and lots of cool paintings and stuffed boars.

The only problem was . . . the food. It was mediocre at best and hinged on being bad. They had five courses and I kept waiting to be impressed and did not especially enjoy anything until dessert. My parents had eaten there a few months earlier and said the food did not even resemble what they had previously and cost twice as much.

They tried to serve a gourmet meal and did not pull it off. The dishes were fancy, with truffle soup, duck and venison. But none of it was very good. Part of the experience of going to a nice restaurant is having food you wouldn't normally eat that is surprisingly delicious. This meal consisted of bland, lukewarm food that I found lacking.

That's what you get for going out on New Year's Eve, you say. True, perhaps restaurants don't shine brightest on Valentine's or New Year's. However, there is a difference between the food being an 7 instead of an 8 or 9 and it being a 3 instead of an 8 or 9. Also, restaurants can't really afford to let people down these days, even the most asinine and unsophisticated can get online and review a restaurant, just look to this blog.

The worst dish was a fish called sable, it was under cooked and sitting on top of some kind of grain dish, which tasted like a Kashi bar. I could barely choke it down and seriously regret not saying something.

Well, there it is, my skewering of the Blue Boar.