I went to Palomino shortly after it opened, and really enjoyed it. I went back last week (Jan '02) and was very disappointed. The lettuce in my salad was wilted and brown around the edges, the salad was drowned in dressing (perhaps to diguise the lettuce?) and the crab cakes were overdone (burnt on the bottom and sides) and dried out to the point of being largely inedible. Definitely not worth the money...
Still loved the atmosphere, but the food was awful!
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