We tried Waypoint for the first time Monday evening. Here is my report.
The excellent:
Cocktails - not a big surprise as their bar manager came from eastern Standard, then to Alden & Harlow. Inventive and delicious.
Tallow fried peanuts. The ultimate bar snack. Hot, salty, and delicious.
Striped Bass crudo with popcorn and shishito crema - man he loves his popcorn and shishitos!
The very good:
Steak tartare - well seasoned (though many folks complain about Scelfo’s food being too salty, I felt this dish could have used a bit more salt).
The OK
Pistachio Knots. like garlic knots, but with chopped pistachios and honey. We enjoyed them, but they were the lowlight of the meal.
The we really wanted to like it more:
Blue crab and Strawberry salad with farro. Now if you name your dish this, I expect crab and strawberries to be the main two components. There was one good sized strawberry quartered in the dish. Had the description been Blue Crab salad with strawberries and farro, I would have been OK with that, but I expect more than one quartered strawberry in a dish where strawberry is one of the two main ingredients listed.
Hearth baked fruit crostada - excellent dough, nice creamy layer inside, almost zero fruit. Again, call it a cream crostada, and it’s excellent, but if you call it a fruit crostada, put some freaking fruit in it!
Overall, a very good experience. We both still prefer Alden & Harlow, but will return (as I really want to try the uni bucatini pasta dish).
