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😒 3/5 - Version 2.0 was inconsistent and unfortunately a disappointment
By 👻 @Marcoherman, 10/11/2022 3:00 am
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I love Aaron Silverman’s cooking – the inventive combinations of flavors, the purity of the results, and often the playfulness of the presentation. As a result, I ate at Pineapple and Pearls several times pre-COVID, and looked forward to the retooled Pineapple and Pearls 2.0, especially after a glowing review in the Washington Post. So my girlfriend and I went there last month. While I continue to believe in Chef Silverman’s skills, we were disappointed in our visit to P&P2.0, and given the expense of the experience it is not clear when (or if) we will want to roll the dice on a re-visit. While dishes that tasted like they were prepared precisely “a point” were a regular occurrence at P&P1.0, only a few met that high standard at P&P2.0. Most disappointing were several components of the last few savory dishes that were too salty by both my and my girlfriend’s standards. By that I mean more salty than anything I had ever tasted in any dish in any previous visit to P&P 1.0. We also had a sense that “show” had taken too much prominence over substance. We were told by the staff that Chef Silverman wanted each evening to feel like New Year’s Eve, and the reservation reminder text asked you to “dust off your fanciest outfit”. But with all due respect, I don’t associate NYE with fine dining, the line of balloons on the ceiling near the chef’s counter didn’t create much of a NYE atmosphere, and only a few people took the fancy dress request to heart. More weirdly, an introductory Champagne was poured into one of those wide and shallow coupes reminiscent of NYE’s of yore. I’m a wine geek, and it has been many decades since any wine people thought those coupes were any good for enjoying Champagne. Finally, I suppose the level of buzz was raised by Chef Silverman’s mixtape playing in the background – not too loud, but at a level where we had to speak with raised voices, and sometimes both of us had trouble hearing some of the patter of our servers. Maybe I can no longer recognize Chef Silverman – although I think I would have noticed his tattooed forearms if not his face – but I am not sure he was there for the entire evening. Maybe this was part of the problem? Regardless, P&P 2.0 is an expensive special occasion dining experience, so it is just not acceptable for them to have an off night. BTW, I also found P@P’s reworked website left much to be desired. I could not find where it stated when new reservation times become available (each month when?). I just had to keep checking regularly until new reservation dates appeared. And it turns out that some times that many people would consider to be prime dinner times simply do not exist. I could see some people (like us) believing that they got to the site too late to snag these times (e.g., 8PM) and therefore postpone to a later date another attempt to get a good reservation time, when in fact that will not accomplish their goal. It would be considerate for P&P to state clearly which time frames are available and which are not. Maybe they have since revised their website to correct these deficiencies – don’t know.
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