Boulevard Bistro (Elk Grove)
food: 3.5/5
experience: 2/5
overall: 3/5
Inside a little house on a crowded street resides Boulevard Bistro, which literally was a house (built in 1908) until they converted it into a restaurant. So you can dine in someone's old living room. It's super dark in there (a little too much so) and very intimate so you can eavesdrop on all your neighbors. It's got a weird vibe that way. You feel like you're at someone's weird dinner party where they set up a bunch of fancy tables, created menus, and hired professional servers. Regarding their menu, unfortunately they do not list it on the website so you'll have to call and ask or just wing it.
We ordered a salad and lamb. Caprese salad and rack of lamb, to be precise.
This Caprese salad is literally a handful of food. Look at it! Those are cherry tomatoes for scale. Pathetic. No matter how good this tastes, it just does not work.
The lamb comes with ratatouille and "shishitos" (Asian peppers). While good, it was not thirty dollars good, nor thirty dollars filling. It tastes like steak basically.
On this occasion our reservation was not ready on time, at 8:30. How many people are still eating by then? Seriously. Having not eaten all day this was rather disappointing. Our waitress was just meh.
Boulevard is highly-reputed and it's different so I wanted to try it. Nice atmosphere. Not so nice price tags. As usual this fancy restaurant serves food that's worth about 25% of its listed price and will probably fill you up no more than 50%, less if you just get an appetizer. I don't understand why people love this place. I guess they want to brag about coming here because it's fancy and they spent a lot of money. So come if you have weight to lose and money to ignite. We don't, so we won't be back.
experience: 2/5
overall: 3/5
Inside a little house on a crowded street resides Boulevard Bistro, which literally was a house (built in 1908) until they converted it into a restaurant. So you can dine in someone's old living room. It's super dark in there (a little too much so) and very intimate so you can eavesdrop on all your neighbors. It's got a weird vibe that way. You feel like you're at someone's weird dinner party where they set up a bunch of fancy tables, created menus, and hired professional servers. Regarding their menu, unfortunately they do not list it on the website so you'll have to call and ask or just wing it.
We ordered a salad and lamb. Caprese salad and rack of lamb, to be precise.
This Caprese salad is literally a handful of food. Look at it! Those are cherry tomatoes for scale. Pathetic. No matter how good this tastes, it just does not work.
The lamb comes with ratatouille and "shishitos" (Asian peppers). While good, it was not thirty dollars good, nor thirty dollars filling. It tastes like steak basically.
On this occasion our reservation was not ready on time, at 8:30. How many people are still eating by then? Seriously. Having not eaten all day this was rather disappointing. Our waitress was just meh.
Boulevard is highly-reputed and it's different so I wanted to try it. Nice atmosphere. Not so nice price tags. As usual this fancy restaurant serves food that's worth about 25% of its listed price and will probably fill you up no more than 50%, less if you just get an appetizer. I don't understand why people love this place. I guess they want to brag about coming here because it's fancy and they spent a lot of money. So come if you have weight to lose and money to ignite. We don't, so we won't be back.
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