Monday, November 20, 2006

An Anniversary Dinner at Copper Bleu

#1 (and only) wife and I decided to partake an anniversary dinner (42nd) at Copper Bleu in Lakeville. We have dined there before with mixed results, my good, her bad. Tonight, all bad. I was advised by a co-worker whose husband works in the food industry that Copper had taken a tumble but I decided to give it a shot because of a pretty good meal there several months ago.
With great regret (because the ambiance and overall good feel of the place lends one to hope for the best) it was to put it mildly, average. I honestly have had better at Perkins.
The prime rib was dry and over-garliced with an, out of a can, string onion accompaniment. The signature mashed potatoes prepared at your table were presented by a kid who, I am sure, had been shanghied from the dishwasher and told to bring the "fixins" to the old pair at table #20. They were cold and I have done better with an Ore-Ida bag with a salt and pepper shaker. A major disapointment with what I thought was a delight last time.
The missus had a shrimp/combo stir-fry that resulted in her leaving a couple of shrimp on the plate. An unheard of occurance since she has been known to hurt people who stood between her and shrimp.
Cold and tastless is not a way to achieve culinery immortality.
The unremarkable Wine was $9 a glass, but was still the saving grace, because after two the food was a lot better.
As you can probably tell from this post I was severely disapointed, PO'ed actually.
An $80 dollar bill should have been a lot better.
If you are looking for a typical Minnesota "not much taste" meal this is a good place.
If you are looking for real sophisticaction and a grab your taste buds experiance, regretably this is not the place.