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Django
480 Lexington Ave., New York, NY, 10167
at 46th St.
212-871-6600
| 6.3 | "Mixed Reviews" Average Reader Rating on a Scale of 10 |  |
Worst restaurant food I can remember
Clauq77 from 07302 | Posted on 8/5/08
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Absolutely the worst restaurant week experience we have ever had (and we REALLY are not the snooty, hard-to-please types). Went with a group of 4 and among us sampled every option on their restaurant week menu. Each and every dish was a flavorless disaster, from the appetizers to the dessert (ultra-bland Vichyssoise soup, risotto & skate, chocolate mousse that was still half-frozen, an inedible Entenmann's-like blueberry crumble...) Really a shame because the descriptions sounded great, and surprising because the Zagat reviews were good. The food was so poor that it became comical and we left the restaurant with a new word in our vocabulary: "Djangoed" \ vb: To unexpectedly have an historically-bad experience when expectations were high.
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It is DaService Django
martin_chamois from West 50's | Posted on 4/23/07
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The restaurant at Django (versus the downstairs bar) provides a relaxed setting for an French Mediterranean meal. We suspect the staff and chef in the kitchen has changed as the food is better than average, but no longer exceptional. The room design and decor is attractive and we were seated in a tented partitioned area which provides a wonderful romantic environment with scores of pillows and wispy drapery. While the food was acceptable the problem was the service. Our waitress was inattentive and not interested in providing service. She twice brought to the wrong wine, implied I made the error in what was ordered and then finally brought a higher priced wine as she finally acknowledged they were out of the ordered wine. It only got worse. She then abandoned us. In fact one of the bus boys took sympathy and poured our wine from the chiller and thus received a reprimand from a manager type! Weird. (we unsurprisingly short tipped the waitress and gave the remainder to the bus boy - as he was the only deserving waitperson.) Wish the service and food matched the decor. But the bar is booming and I guess management just does notcare.
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Nice lounge!
Charisma | Posted on 12/1/05
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We went there like a month ago, they have a live jazz band playing in the lounge, nice wine, couple of glasses of champagne - sexy and chic decor, friendly service - not crowded at all - saturday evening is deff. a must + we've found out that they don't charge a corkage fee on sat., so wine lovers can enjoy their very own favorite bottle of wine for free (term of "corkage fee" is really annoying - don't you think?) We nibbled on assortiment of satayed chicken, shrimp and something else (probably smth that I didn't really tasted) - it was surprizingly flavorfull, as much as an appettizers could be lol - Anyway, decor is really something that will take your breath away - absolutely stunning!!!
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You've arrived!
CaptainCook from 10964 | Posted on 4/19/05
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Django is the kind of restaurant where you say to yourself, "I've finally arrived in New York." You sit down, and the ambience says, "Don't worry. Relax. Hang the cost! Enjoy yourself! You're in New York!" The six of us had a great dinner, with superb and very interesting wine, a doting wait-person, and at the end of it all, reasonable prices.
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hungryjacq from 11215 | Posted on 1/27/04
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As a huge foie gras fan, I have to admit that the reason I didn't score Django higher is the foie gras. It colored my entire perception of the restaurant. The butternut squash soup was very good, but not good enough to cause me to overlook the foie gras. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't horrible...it just wasn't good. And I think foie gras should always be good. My companions both ordered the cauliflower soup and the chicken entree and enjoyed them both. Perhaps I should have followed suit!
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Discordant notes
DiningDemon | Posted on 10/18/03
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It's drop dead gorgeous and the courteous staff certainly means well. But the flow of food from the kitchen is tortuous - a table celebrating a birthday refused their complimentary desserts because the meal up to that point had taken so long. Too bad, desserts were almost the best part of my recent meal. It was the beet salad that was the knock-out, a symphony of flavors and textures and the tuna tartar was very good with the fish properly chopped rather than macerated. But Tovar's attempt to take foie gras for a creative spin stalled at the starting gate and the sweetbreads would have been fine if not for the stringy, salty bacon bed. Don't know how you make rack of lamb flavorless, but the kitchen did, salvaged only by by the marvelous moussaka that accompanied it. Rib eye was fine, though a bit mealy and monkfish was nicely done. One of those places you want to love, but can't - remains worthy for a drink and light fare in the sexy ground floor bar/lounge.
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