I'm Patrick Malone, new to the forum, a lawyer downtown with my own firm (www.patrickmalonelaw.com) and lover of foods of all kinds. Today since the usual chef here, my wife Vicki, is out of town, I'm making a polenta with mushroom ragout, with the polenta and recipe coming from Anson Mills in SC, which has great mail order heirloom products. Last great meal was at Siroc, coincidentally reviewed in today's Post. I would have given it another star. By comparison, I just got back from a short trip to Las Vegas, where I ate at L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon, and had his spring tasting menu. The food was spectacular but the service was barely competent and snobbishly indifferent. At Siroc, on the other hand, the chef came out and introduced the courses; service was friendly but not overly fawning -- the kind of place you want to go back to soon.
