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JL IVY

378 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ
(609) 921-1113
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June 27, 2008

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Priced WAY ABOVE food quality

I just had dinner there tonight (6/27). The atmosphere is very nice, service was very good, and the food was ok. We had ceviche and crab cake for appetizers, which were both very good. The entrees were quite disappointing, though: my wife had shrimps and scallops, which were excellent quality-wise, but she got 3 shrimp and 2 scallops on a bed of lettuce. That was it! and this was a 26$ dish! I got a Paella (or something like that) which has a mix of chicken breast, chorizo, lobster meat (very few of that), clams and mussels, calamari and 4 shrimp, all mixed in rice and peas. The rice and peas seemed to have come from one of those mixes you buy frozen at the supermarket. The chicken was fairly dry, and it did not at all look like a fancy 32$ dish. We drank water and did not have dessert, and ended up paying 100$ with tip, which is insane! This is what we paid at The Ferry House, where the service and food are probably the best in town. Also in the same price range (103$ for a couple with tip) is Tre Piani in the Village – another place that is WAY BETTER than this one. Not to mention Blue Point Grill or Witherspoon Grill.

So, bottom line: the food was ok, but it should be priced at about half of what it is now. Until they change that, I recommend you eat at any of the places I mentioned above. Doing that will at least make you feel your 100$ were well spent.

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