Now that Rick Moonen's headed out West to his Las Vegas branch, the gifted but peripatetic John Tesar is executive chef, dispensing delicacies like Pacific sturgeon with sauce gribiche. The seafood is sustainably fished and creatively prepared, and a $62 three-course prix fixe dinner features entrees like pistachio-dusted skate and seared sturgeon with crispy "brandade" cake.
My boyfriend and I visited rm during restaurant week, as, on a grad student salary, it would otherwise be outside of our price range. The food was fantastic - the combinations were innovative but wonderfully complimentary, and I will never figure out how they cooked the egg on my frisee "au" salmon. The service was polite in general, but I got the sense that the staff "smelled poverty" on us - we were only offered the prix fixe restaurant week menu, and the waiter seemed shocked when I asked to see the regular wine list (not that I could afford anything on it...). There was a slight air of condescension as he took our orders and served us, the sort that I get a bit sensitive about when I make the trek from graduate school in new jersey. The food made up for it, though, easily.
The food is great - everything from appetizers to the dessert. The ambiance is average but the service was disoriented. There were many servers but did not know what to do. Not good for large parties- more than 4.