Cafe Centro - NYC

Cafe Centro is located behind Grand Central Terminal. Sewell and I went there for our pre-Valentine's Dinner since he and I couldn't meet up on Monday the 14th. (He lives in MD and I'm here in NY) I'm pretty sure the restaurant is famous for the chocolate fondue dessert since all the couples there ordered that for dessert. Small portions of pound cake and strawberries were offered along with melted chocolate in ceramic bowl heated by tea candle at the bottom of the platter. The dessert was okay, could have been better if the candle was lit throughout the dessert course. After the candle blew out, the melted chocolate became a little heavy and grainy. So dipping strawberries into lukewarm and grainy chocolate didn't get me into a romantic mood. We tried to get an available waiter to relight the candle, but everyone was busy. We sort of gave up after several attempts.

The dinner course was not as bad. We both ordered the lobster entree since the waiter claimed to the best. And considering we were both ordering from the prix fixe menu, the lobster was the best and expensive choice among the others. The lobster pieces were boiled so it tasted quite bland and the texture was hard. I was dying for some butter during the midway of eating but didn't want to ruin the natural taste of the lobster. So... I struggled trying to finish it. It was a bit of a torture, chewing on that thing.

I'm not sure if I want to go back, maybe I'll try it again if the restaurant is not crowded and probably order something not from the prix fixe menu.