For my first post, I will chime in about my experience at the Foo: After voting this past Tuesday, a friend and I went for dinner. The waiter told us their official opening wasn't until this weekend. The menu is set up for sharing and we started off with the dumpling sampler: pork, veggie, scallop, lamb and mushroom. The dumpling were nicely presented accompanied by soy, hot mustard and duck sauces. Its hard for me not to love a dumpling but these dumplings were exceptional. The wild mushroom and traditional pork were the standouts. Next. we had a dissapointing chopped salad. THe arugula and tofu were fine but the miso vinagrette was overpoweringly tart to the point of making some bites inedible. For something that is essentially a house salad, I was surprised that the dressing is so bad. Hopefully this will change as the kitchen gets its feet. For our main course, we had the classic crispy duck and weren't dissapointed. The duck came as billed, crispy and cooked to pefection. It came over a bed of mashed sweet poatoes and mixed vegetables. Maybe if the mashed potatoes werent lukewarm, we would have enjoyed them. For this, plus two pots of green tea, the bill came to a little under $60. While I enjoyed most of what we ate, I can't see myself running back. I agree with the other posters in that the new Foo outpost is like other Main Line overpriced. gloified "Chinese" resaturants (I might even add Nectar to the list). I'd much rather have a dumpling at Lakeside or peking duck at Sang Kee, for a lot less money too. Side note: the restaurant space overcomes its office building setting for the most part except for the three flat screen tv's that hang above the open kitchen. Who really wants to watch Jim Cramer's Mad Money while eating out? and who chose to put on CNBC? Weird, if you ask me.
