My meal of 12/31 marks a low point in seven years of dining at Justin's. Overall, the fixed-price menu seemed obviously optimized for profit over culinary ambition. This experience diverges greatly from what I have come to expect at Justin's. The execution of the meager offering was poor, and included a beef wellington blanketed in wet puff pastry, and lobster tails soaked in some kind of salt water jelly. The non-existent value of the menu was set in stone at the start of the evening. I can only hope that the poor execution was a function of the late hour (10:45) and the staff's preoccupation with the impending new year.
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