The Three Birds in Corning, NY, was the first destination in my wife's family's reunion held every 5 years or so. Four of us went with high hopes. The place is absolutely lovely, with a great staff and nice setting but.....
We started off with a Harbor Fish Soup that was really quite good, a baby green and a Caesar salad that were standard and bread that was clearly made with care, in house, with an EVOO sauce, but both disappointing.
Then we moved on to a crab cake, salmon, and swordfish that were OK but no more and I had their signature dish of flash-fried calamari with putanesca sauce that was the most inedible dish of the year. Our great wait-person asked if she could replace it and I got the Portuguese bean soup that was pretty damn good.
Desserts were a tiramisu (left unfinished by my number 3 grand-child, quite wisely I thought) and a berry crisp, quite OK.
With two bottles of a Cotes de Rhone and no coffee or bottled water, our bill before tip was $151.20.
Go? For soups and salads and wines and good service.
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