Eating here was highly anticipated after hearing and reading about the iconic Smith & Daughters
for years, following Shannon Martinez, having the cookbooks, etc. My partner and I had the set menu for my birthday dinner - $95 per person, 8 different dishes to share.
Could’ve sworn I’d read somewhere you could ONLY have the set menu on Friday & Saturday nights, but turns out we could’ve ordered a la carte, and wish we had’ve done that instead tbh.
Pros:
- Beautiful restaurant with lots of attention to detail, right down to the ice cubes in the cocktail being stamped with S&D logo (as a design/branding nerd I appreciated that haha)
- Lovely staff, very knowledgable & attentive, waitress brought out a candle in the dessert after my partner mentioned it was my bday which was cute
- OBSCENE amount of food if you’re a big eater, honestly left here the fullest we’ve been in ages
- The first 3 dishes were excellent and our favourites, went a little downhill after that
Cons:
- Several dishes came out stone cold (chick’n pastilla, the reginette pasta, the cauliflower dish)
- Some dishes were extremely salty, particularly the mushroom frites. The mushroom was also extremely tough and chewy, couldn’t cut it.
- Personally would prefer a slightly cheaper price with less food as it was just SO MUCH for 2 people and a lot would go to waste (we struggled through and smashed about 90% of it though haha 😎)
Overall unfortunately wouldn’t recommend the set menu. For the price and reputation of S&D I kinda expected the whole thing to be perfection, and it wasn’t.
