Plates

The special are always exciting. Especially when it's the bavette steak ....

The add they had on there website was misleading people to believe that they have a $65 prix fixe for Valentine's day dinner. I automatically thought it refers to a party of 2 like I see other people writing reviews on open table did. It was $65 for one person but the most outrageous was the fact that the waiter suggested us to get the $10 pasta for my daughter. Initially I decided to have some pasta for myself that I knew my daughter could eat. Following the advice of the waiter we had the $10 pasta for kids which came with a $15 "price adjustment" a total of $25 for some pasta with butter and $150 ($65x2+cups of tea) for me and my wife. No wine, just 2 appetizer, 2 main courses, 2 cups of tea, 1 desert. Disappointing overall, food was good but not great with emphasis on the big portion size and not on quality, chocolate on the "ring ding" dessert was rock solid literally.

Love plates! Been multiple times and had my engagement party here. Bread is fresh baked, fried chicken was delicious, bottomless bbq was yummy, and the ring ding is my favorite dessert (although the donut, ice cream, and pie were all yummy and big portions). Cocktails were delicious and inventive and very good wine list.

Several fabulous meals here. Local flavors and regional meats and produce. Innovative and tasty.

So I recieved a gift card for 125.00 from some friends for Plates. My wife and I don't get out enough to go for dinner without kids usually involved but it was our anniversary and we decided to celebrate and use the card which I had received a year before.
When the bill came it was 150.00 and I handed the gift card to the server and my credit card to cover the extra charges. The server said the card was no good as it could not be read by their machine.
I really did not want to make a scene since it was a special occasion so I paid for the dinner. I ended up sending the card back with a lettter mentioning the people who had purcheased the gift card. I did not want to contact the friends because there was no reason to get them involved. I figured that the manager/owner of Plates would do the right thing.
But was not surprised that they never got back to me.
The food was good but I would not return or recommend Plates to family and friends since they never even took the time to contact me.
Lusardi's in Larchmont gives out gift certificates not magnetic cards and this never would have happened.
Plus the one time we went there the bartender gave my wife samples of some excellent Italian wines and they accomodated us without reservations on a busy Saturday night.