I went with 7 people to the 360 for a birthday dinner. The night started out well, 4 of us arrived early (7 for a 7:45 reservation) and were asked to wait "at the bar downstairs" which leads you to think it was affiliated with the same restaurant. It was a good thing we decided to check our watch at 8 as no one from the 360 bothers to come get you for your table when it is ready, and they don't have the basic tech of a pager system. So even though we were 45 min early we were late for our reservation and the rest of our group. We found out that the bar is a separate restaurant when the waiter came chasing us up the stairs to settle our tab, which was very embarrassing. The 2 restaurants have an agreement where you can bring drinks up to the 360, but that's it, or so our waiter at the bar told us.
Now we are at our table and all of us got the 2 course pre fix meal from the menu as we brought in a cake for the desert (I will come back to the cake later). At $65 it was the cheapest item on the menu. Once we have ordered, the courses came at a good pace. I ordered the gnocchi which was probably the worst I have ever tasted, it was 5 or 6 small pieces of gnocchi, that apparently had pork somewhere in the dish. The gnocchi was incredibly dry and seemed like it was previously frozen. My wife got the beet salad and that was quite good as long as you got the dressing on the side and did not use it at all. 2 others at table got the ceasar "salad", this was the laziest execution of a ceasar salad we had ever seen. The Salad was 1 Romain lettuce bunch including the stalk cut in half lengthwise one piece placed on top of the other on the plate to form a cross with 2 or 3 small bacon bits and lightly drizzled with dressing. This is the first ceasar salad that needed a knife to eat it and according to the people who had it it was a bad dressing and the bacon tasted like imitation not real. 2 others got the shrimp (Which is $9 extra) so you would expect a decent amount of shrimp in the cocktail, nope it was 5 medium sized shrimp, generally a shrimp cocktail is made with large tiger shrimp. None of us enjoyed the appetizers that we ordered.
Now to the main course. I got the salmon and scallops, I have to give them credit the scallops were delicious (there were 2 large sea scallops) and the cream sauce went perfectly with them, the salmon on the other hand was another story entirely. It was so dry and tasteless that it had to have been left in the oven for at least 15 minutes too long, because of the abysmal quality I was happy it was a small 4oz (at the most) portion. My wife got the Atlantic char, and when she asked if she could sub a green salad or veggies of any kind for the wild rice, she was told no. Which was very disappointing as the rice was not cooked (how bad does the chef have to be to not know how to cook rice?!) the fish itself was tasty, again a very small portion, the squash that came with it had no seasoning to speak of. The tables do not have salt or pepper (surprisingly), the pepper is offered by the waiter and if you say yes, he grinds a bare minimum on your plate and moves on, and if you ask for more pepper it is like you have put him out. Every other restaurant I have been to the server keeps grinding with an occasional pause until you tell them to stop. At least with salt they bring a salt shaker to the table after you ask for it. The prime rib was good, no complaints on that one from the person who got it. The chicken was apparently drier than the salmon. The veal was tasty both people who ordered it enjoyed the taste, the 2 pieces were very different. One had a large bone that was more than half the weight of the meat on the palate, the other did not, however both had a very large section of gristle around the outside edge that had to be removed, basic trimming should have taken care of that in the kitchen another sign of the laziness.
The bread was what saved this meal for most of us, not that the bread was anything special it was a simple Multigrain bread that you would find in any grocery store. And served at room temp, not warm, with butter. But there was enough of it to fill you up when you realized that half the meal you ordered is not fit to eat. And they will bring you more bread when you ask for it.
Now I am coming back to the cake we brought in. When we arrived we told the host that we would like the cake served as desert for our table and gave him the cake. Unfortunately just as he did not tell us that no one would come for us when the table was ready, or that the bar was not part of the same restaurant, he also failed to let our server know that we had provided a cake. He also failed to tell us that the candles we provided could not all be lit due to their Fire code. Our server did not know about the cake and brought out a single serve cake that is made at the 360. We had to ask for the cake we brought to be brought out to the table. We got the candles, then the cake separately. read more