rusconi's american kitchen

amazing service & food. made a same-day reservation sunday, september 14th. was kindly greeted and immediately seated at our table near the bar. took our drink orders and made some great wine recommendations. between three adults we ordered the goat cheese and truffle fries to start and for dinner the salmon, steak medallions, and the lamb with a side of green chili risotto and savory bread pudding. the wait was a little longer than expected but the quality offoodand service trumped all!! so good!!

nice try. it really was a good attempt but thefoodwas not quite there. just cause you use ingredients such as truffle and culinary " buzz" words it doesn't make it good unless you know what you're doing. i'm sorry but this place was not my favorite. probably will not go back.

server was great though. patrons were all seniors so not a hip ambience.

we had a great experience at rusconi's american kitchen. they just change the menu the night we were there. we thought thefoodwas excellent we started out with the pork belly with shriner sausage and apple relish i had the rack of lamb and my friend had the salmon, she is from seattle and said it was the best salmon she's ever had. the service was very attentive and thefoodarrived very quickly. this is our fourth time into the restaurant. it has become our new neighborhood spot we highly recommend this new independent chef driven spot

food is okay, but service will drive you away. rusconi's is a neighborhood restaurant for us; we've been there a dozen times, but what started well has evolved into a service disaster. the last two times (why i went back after the first bad experience, i don't know) have been absurd.

bad experience #1, we went for happy hour and one of our orders was the short rib sliders. over the hour we kept asking the bartender where our order was and kept being assured they were almost ready. finally they showed up one hour later and were burned to a crisp. we weren't alone as i looked down the line at the other diners, who also couldn't eat what had been brought to them. the bartenders knew thefoodwas substandard and that noone was eating it, but ignored the situation.

bad experience #2, we went back for happy hour. for the first 10 minutes there was no one at the bar; the servers were all hanging out by the kitchen. when we finally were able to flag down a server they occassionally took our order.foodwas okay (actually the pork belly was a huge improvement vs their opening) but the server treated every customer seated as if they were an inconvenience. it took over 20 minutes just to get our bill at the end of the night, and they were not busy.

you may like the food, but the service will negate any positive part of your experience. take the time to drive another 5 minutes and go to blt for your night out.