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Blue Aster is the hotel restaurant that confirms why people are suspicious of hotel restaurants. The concept is upscale American with regional sourcing, which sounds right. The execution is technically proficient without being interesting — the specific failure mode that's more frustrating than active badness because you can see the outline of what the kitchen is attempting and feel the gap between that and what arrives.
Proteins are cooked correctly and land flat. Sauces are applied rather than built. Vegetables arrive properly done and immediately forgotten. The room is genuinely beautiful and the service is polished, which makes the food's underperformance feel more pronounced with each course.
Proteins are cooked correctly and land flat. Sauces are applied rather than built. Vegetables arrive properly done and immediately forgotten. The room is genuinely beautiful and the service is polished, which makes the food's underperformance feel more pronounced with each course.
The cooking is competent without being interesting. Proteins are cooked correctly but lack flavor development. Sauces are applied rather than built. The room is beautiful and doing too much work.
Blue Aster is the hotel restaurant that confirms why people are suspicious of hotel restaurants. Upscale American with regional sourcing, technically proficient execution, genuinely uninteresting results. Beautiful room, polished service, food that lands flat.
