Café Mozu

All and all I give Café Mozu raves. I thought the food and the service was on par for a fancy restaurant. I was there for Restaurant Week, so I didn’t check out the entire menu, but the summer tomato and avocado salad and black cod were super yummy. However, no rave would be complete without a few accompanying rants…so here they are (not necessarily in order):

1. Not enough reasonably priced wines by the glass
2. VOSS bottled water may be served in individual glass bottles, but is definitely not worth 6.00/bottle
3. Service in the Empress Lounge left a lot to be desired…it was more like waitress Princess Leia forgot about her tables while she was off in lala land
4. The maitre d' who takes reservations over the phone cannot properly read the computer screen to understand the availability of tables (e.g., can’t tell when there is room for 3 vs 5 people at the restaurant)
5. Only 2 women’s stalls for two restaurants to share…but I don’t hold this against Café Mozu, hardly any bars or restaurants have adequate lavatories for the ladies

While this may seem like a lots of rants, they will not prevent me from giving the Mandarin Oriental Hotel a second chance…even if it is just to see if City Zen is really all that it is cracked up to be…