Most overrated restaurant you've eaten at recently

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Anonymous wrote:I also found the Inn at Little Washington hugely overrated. We love fine dining and have eaten at great restaurants all over the world (we're not American and only recently moved here). The Inn was by far our most expensive meal - $950 for tasting menu with matching wines. It was nice but unmemorable. Which is outrageous for that price!

We love Little Serow!

I didn't like Little Serow at all. High end ingredients but all the seasoning seemed so inauthentic to me (I've traveled in Thailand quite a bit.)

It's pretty good for America. I lived in Laos for a time and it's closer to Laotian cuisine - I think it does describe itself as north-eastern Thai rather than mainstream Thai.

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Anonymous wrote:Komi. I was on the fence until presented with the "cod from the chef's home island." It was cod. Big waste of money.

We were underwhelmed too. I would have like cod though, regardless of its provenance. Not a fan of the greasy goat.

Komi was wonderful. And before you accuse me of anything, I’m well traveled and make it a point to eat at nice restaurants.

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Bad Saint. Might feel differently if I didn’t have to wait for 3 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:Casa Luca.... much better places to go for the price.

To the Bad Saint commenters what's the problem other than the queuing? I've been dying to try this place out.

It is a waste of everybody's time and set itself up for not meeting the expectation. Even Noma has a reservation system. Who do they think they are?

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Anonymous wrote:Nobu on M. I wanted to love it, but after over $100 later, I was starving and the food there was ...wasn't that great. bummer

It is a chain restaurant.

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Anonymous wrote:Tiger Fork. Mediocre cocktail. Food is not even as good as a strip mall Chinese place. Nice deco, completely over priced and pretentious.

Yep, it is hard to get decent basic Chinese food from a non-Chinese chef.

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Tiger Fork is definitely overrated. I didnt like anything there very much.

I also didn’t think Maydan lived up to the hype but I think that’s just a food preference thing - I don’t like Middle Eastern food that much, so I’m not that excited about high end Middle Eastern inspired food. I know others that LOVE it.

I have had some really amazing meals at Rose’s Luxury.

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Anonymous wrote:Del Mar

It is expensive, but the food, service and presentation are all good.

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Anonymous wrote:Ruth's Chris in Tysons

+1

Terrible service. The regulars around us seemed to be treated well but we had to ask twice for another glass of water and another glass of wine. Our waiter seemed annoyed from the get go. No smile, not friendly in the slightest. We felt like we were treated like 2nd class citizens because it was our first time there. The food was just ok, nothing special and certainly nothing worth putting up with being treated poorly for. Never again.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh, I love Zaytinya. Especially the vegetable dishes. I eat there at least twice a year (which is saying a lot since I have two small kids and don't get out much these days).

My contribution for over-rated is Q by Peter Chang, though I readily admit that if I cared for Sichuan peppers (the numbing ones), I would probably feel differently. I really dislike them though so that eliminates half the menu. For the other half, I've had practically the same dish, better done, bigger portions, and at half the price, at the myriad excellent Chinese places in Rockville (especially Bob's Shanghai 66). The exception is Q's dumplings -- all uniformly outstanding.

I liked Blue Duck, though it was one of those places where the food is very well done but just not that interesting/exciting. I didn't feel any need to go back.

Chinese here. Q by Peter Chang is not bad - they have a soup dish with fish balls which are the closest to clean cooking I've seen in DC area. Overall the Chinese food here is antique compared with modern China.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder what Tom Sietsema thinks of this thread since most of the restaurants on this thread are always recommended by him. He prob got special status

He does not understand non-western food at all. His rave of Tiger Fork is laughable.

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Anonymous wrote:Huh, I love Zaytinya. Especially the vegetable dishes. I eat there at least twice a year (which is saying a lot since I have two small kids and don't get out much these days).

My contribution for over-rated is Q by Peter Chang, though I readily admit that if I cared for Sichuan peppers (the numbing ones), I would probably feel differently. I really dislike them though so that eliminates half the menu. For the other half, I've had practically the same dish, better done, bigger portions, and at half the price, at the myriad excellent Chinese places in Rockville (especially Bob's Shanghai 66). The exception is Q's dumplings -- all uniformly outstanding.

I liked Blue Duck, though it was one of those places where the food is very well done but just not that interesting/exciting. I didn't feel any need to go back.

Chinese here. Q by Peter Chang is not bad - they have a soup dish with fish balls which are the closest to clean cooking I've seen in DC area. Overall the Chinese food here is antique compared with modern China.

I didn’t like Q either. My spouse had a vegetarian special there we both thought was gross. But I loved tiger fork.

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Anonymous wrote:All those hip ramen places where you have to queue for 30 minutes to get a bowl of so so noodles. Daikaya, Sakuramen, .... the only thing special is the wait.

Totally agree. Although I did not wait for Sakuramen. The ramen is ob for American. The borth was so boring and kinda watery, and the soup is not HOT, which the most reman place serves warm...hate it!!!!!

Yes, they are terrible. Any street stall back home would beat these. And the nonsense of flying noodles from Japan? If you can't make decent noodles on premise, you are not a noddle place.