The great Yelp reviews led me to Auciel. This particular restaurant specializes in hot-pot cooking…read moreor Fondue (in French). In Fondue, they give you veggies and meats and you dip them in hotpots of broth. Tables consist of ceramic tops which keep the broth warm while you do your tabletop "cooking". But we came here for the non-hotpot dishes.
We had the lamb cumin dish and the sautéed chicken szechwan. The lamb cumin dish was perfection--perfect cubes of lamb covered in cumin with lots of spicy peppers. The chicken dish was really tiny bits of chicken sautéed in chili peppers--nice and spicy. The downside of this dish was that the morsels of chicken also included bits of bone. So technically they chopped up chicken into tiny pieces, bones and all , and sautéd all of it.
So much care has to be taken while you eat this dish so that you don't swallow any bones. I didn't have a problem. We also ordered a side dish of white rice which was a little sticky as most Chinese rice tends to be.
At the end of the meal we handed them a credit card which they claimed was declined. We had used it two hours earlier so we knew it was a good card. We gave them cash but our belief was that they wanted cash all along and just accidentally "mishandled" the credit card process so it wouldn't go through. Once we got home, we double checked with the credit card company and they said the card was fine and they did not see that a restaurant had declined the card. So, liar, liar pants on fire, if you want cash from your patrons, then put up a "No credit cards" sign and be done with it.
We liked the food and service but don't like the shenanigans with the credit card which cost them one star.