Caia, Wine Room

Food we ordered: tuna tartare, oysters with single shot martini, chicken and waffles, sweet potato agnolotti, iberico ribs. Tuna, not balanced, too much bitter shiso leaf. Oysters very good and the single shot martini straight from their freezer is excellent. Chicken and waffles, excellent, such an interesting flavor combo with liver parfait and rhubarb compote. Agnolotti was fine, nothing out of this world. For dessert, we had tiramisu, excellent flavor but served in weird bowl that’s difficult for sharing. While food was excellent, I thought portions were criminally small for the prices. Spent 185 and was satisfied but I knew I’d be hungry within an hour vs I’ve spent 120 at other similarly excellent restaurants and been absolutely stuffed (think Straker’s and Canteen just around the corner). Also unnecessarily got a reminder at 7:45 that the table was due at 8pm. Caia is no different than any other fancy modern European restaurant with regard to 1.5 hour maximum seating, but nowhere else did I need a warning that my table time was almost done, usually they can see that I’m finishing my dessert at 7:45, so I will definitely be out by 8pm. Not really a big deal, just from a service standpoint, felt unnecessary to kill an environment that so far had been extremely hospitable and does seem to be a noted pattern in other reviews.