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Thanks to the helpful folks at DonRockwell, I am (hopefully)about to add my words of praise for Vermilion in the correct spot in this site. Very recently, a friend and I had our first Vermilion dinner. It's hard to believe that we've lived in the area for many years and not discovered this gem! We tried the tasting menu with suggested wines and really appreciated how the "right" wine enhances the food. If you're going to get the tasting menu I strongly encourage also doing the wine pairing. Sitting in the window, peeking down on King Street is so much fun! We enjoyed flawless and knowledgeable service and delicious food...what's not to love? We'll be back.

I'm glad to see the May Sunday menu review is positive. We're thinking of taking my mom here post-Mothers' Day and were excited to see fried chicken on the list.

We had a bad experience in the diningroom during the winter so we hadn't been in for a while. Popped in during the week for a "quick one" at the bar. (We'd missed Deborah's great cocktails). So glad to see good reviews for the fried chicken in May because it's coming back in August and so are we. I wonder if you can eat Nana's Sunday Dinner at the bar? (And the wine of choice for good ole "country-fried" is what??!)

Sthitch -- I agree. The service at the bar is just great! I've eaten at the bar several times since the Majestic reopened in May and I'm not even tempted to go on back to the diningroom. Went in the other night to try a new item...scallops. They are now definitely my new favorite (edging out the crabcakes) Have Deborah, the bartender, suggest the perfect wine to accompany your meal. She's hit it perfectly 100% of the time for me.

My wife and I had a great time eating dinner at the bar last night. She started with an off-menu order of a splendid French 75 (ok they have the French 76 on the menu so it wasn’t too far off menu), I went for the Old Cuban and could not have been happier. The Old Cuban was a very complex rum filled romp.

We started with the Charcuterie Plate. I believe that this was the best I have had in the area. It was simple, with Bresaola drizzled with balsamic, sopressata sprinkled with crushed peppers, a couple of pieces of firm cheese, and a house made cheese spread that went perfectly with the Bresaola. The platter was also served with a combination of various sized olives mixed with herbs and pine nuts.

It is getting near the end of the soft-shell season so I took on one last chance to have some. The softies served last night were small, so small I wonder how they could have been legal, but the three that came on the platter were quite tasty, and no limp as someone further up thread mentioned. The succotash was a nice accompaniment to what I fear are my last softies of the season.

My wife’s strip steak was a great example of what a steak can be, perfectly cooked with a nice crust, and a compound butter that compliments the steak not overpowers its meaty flavor. However, for me the star of the dish were the fries. They were simple rather thick fries that surprisingly tasted like potato. I am not sure what it was about these fries that one me over, they are not cooked in duck fat, they were not particularly crispy, they did not come with any fancy mayo’s, they just tasted like a fry should taste. We both decided one of our upcoming visits will consist only of these fries with a couple of cold beers.

Desert was good, we had the mind-freeze inducing lemon sorbet, and the ice-box cake. Both were very good, the ice-box cake lost some of its complexity when the too small portion of mint ice cream was finished, and I was hoping that the sorbet would have been a sampler instead of three large scoops of one type.

The service at the bar was friendly and professional so much so that I think that in the future I might just forgo trying to eat in the dinning room and pull-up a chair to that bar.