I?m almost certain that the glowing praise for Feast was written by restaurant staff and their families. Even the fabled Houston ?foodie? couldn?t be that confused. I tried three dishes, and the highest praise I could lavish on the food is that one dish proved edible (pork rillettes). I also tried the ox heart with carrots. It was like an amalgam of wet cigarettes, crotch sweat, and burnt pencil erasers. It was a musky cut of meat even the Vietnamese would be reluctant to put in a soup. For an entr?e, I tried the pork belly, which is usually a favorite dish of mine. However, instead of the delightful searing that is sometimes present on pork belly, there was something more akin to armor on one side providing the crispness. Another misstep is that pork belly is not suited to be an entr?e, at least in the hands of the cook at Feast. It is necessarily fatty, but the pork belly here was far too oily. I tried very hard to like the food, but I could tolerate no more than five bites or so, and I regret taking those. Although the service was polite, I thought it was not proper to charge me full price when so much of the food was uneaten and obviously unenjoyed.
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