fred. — Restaurant in Providence

This was a great experience, but I don't feel the value was there.

The food was creatively conceived and presented well, but the portion sizes felt small.

Compared to Slow Rhode, this place had similar service and timeliness. I feel at Slow Rhode you get more bang for your buck despite the cuisine being more comfort food. The portion sizes are bigger at Slow Rhode.

Dining at fred, the appetizers were almost $10-$15 each and my partner and I ordered 5 of them. After eating all of them, we both still felt hungry. And we don't have the biggest appetites!

We ended up ordering an entree to follow to fill up our guts, and this put our bill well over $100. But at least this also consisted of a couple glasses of wine.

Some disappointments, the chourico tasted nice, but it was $9 and looked like a quarter of a single sausage. You could eat the thing in like four bites. I also felt I could make something like that but a full sausage size and a fraction of the cost.

Some highlights, the focaccia and agrodulce was unlike anything I'd ever had. To my simple palate, I'd never had agrodulce before. It's like a sweet onion dip. Delicious! The olive oil was excellent in addition to the taste and texture of the focaccia bread. For $6, I think this was worth it.

The service was fantastic. Very timely, warm, and attentive. The food came out quickly and my drinks were always filled and given proper attention. This was accomplished with a relatively full restaurant on a Friday. Very nice!

Overall, this was a good experience. I have more nice things to say than negative. I hope the portion sizes are increased because everything...

After overcoming my initial aversion to a restaurant featuring a proper name followed by a period, I ventured here last night with a small group. Frankly--or fredly--the only consolation to this overpriced and dejecting meal was discovering I was indeed right about the hubris of a new bistro concluding its name with a period, as if diners would, in some important way, be satisfied with their experience. Though the focaccia with bagna cauda was delicious (if modest), it was soured by the miserly spoonful of pork and littlenecks ($24), and a portion of cucumber salad ($13) so dismally small that we fought over three fronds of frisée. Luckily there was the foresight to order a bolo, which wavered in my mind like a mirage--yet, despite asking multiple times for its whereabouts, it remained elusive and at large--to the serene unconcern of the staff. To be fair, it is possible that our languishing requests ("bolo, bolo, bo--?") were inaudible given the acoustic situation: our booth, and every booth, was flanked--inexplicably--on three sides by painted slats each turned on a diagonal, seemingly to ensure the greatest deflection of the human voice. When satisfying your diners is impossible, this may well be...

Dinner Stuffed peppers 7.5/10: pretty good and creative dish overall. Tiny dish, almost like an appetizer. Focaccia 4/10 : Saltier than the Dead Sea. Duck confit bolo 6/10: taste was good but came burnt on both sides of the patty and bread was burnt too. We asked for a re do which still came half burnt and the waiter said that’s just how it is. If you could do it for one half why couldn’t you do it for the other? 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️ Besides, I’ve cooked burgers that weren’t burnt before it’s not that hard Pork and littleneck clams 3.5/10: Salty af 😬

Decor/Ambience: Waited 20 minutes for a table that we reserved

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