Butcher...meh
Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 6:04 pm
In my never ending quest to eat at the most expensive places humanly possible, I had lunch here. This is the wine bar/butcher shop next to Cochon. My first impression is that the guy's business model, buy the best and then overcharge for it in a sassy, revved up atmosphere, is wholly unsustainable in the age of Obama.
I paid $14 for a Reuben. Possibly the thinnest amount of meat on a sandwich, I have ever seen in my life. I made a passing comment to our waitress, and she laughed it off. The homemade potato chips are quite tasty though. But again, there were maybe 12 chips in the basket.
There is a butcher counter and while I thought the cuts meat looked awesome, $19 a lb for a ribeye is outrageous. $14 for lamb shanks, are you f-ing kidding me? Even Whole Paycheck gives those things away. There are also several Butcher "specials" were you can expect to be gouged. Jamabalaya stuffed chicken will run you $25 each. $9 a pint for their chicken and sausage gumbo.
I hate to just object to things on price. And the ribeyes did look great but this whole concept looks like a giant exercise in overcharging and underdelivering. Not recommended.
I paid $14 for a Reuben. Possibly the thinnest amount of meat on a sandwich, I have ever seen in my life. I made a passing comment to our waitress, and she laughed it off. The homemade potato chips are quite tasty though. But again, there were maybe 12 chips in the basket.
There is a butcher counter and while I thought the cuts meat looked awesome, $19 a lb for a ribeye is outrageous. $14 for lamb shanks, are you f-ing kidding me? Even Whole Paycheck gives those things away. There are also several Butcher "specials" were you can expect to be gouged. Jamabalaya stuffed chicken will run you $25 each. $9 a pint for their chicken and sausage gumbo.
I hate to just object to things on price. And the ribeyes did look great but this whole concept looks like a giant exercise in overcharging and underdelivering. Not recommended.