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So glad I didn't listen to the negative reviews. My wife, son, and I had one of the best dining experiences of our lives last night. The food was great. I recommend the gaccpacho, skate, and rainbow sherbet. Our waiter (Andrew) was a delight and helped to make the experience with his suggestions. If you use the bathroom, you need a sense of humor to really appriciate the exerience. Fantastic evening and one we will remember for a long time. Thankyou Wiley and staff

Great location. Great food. Great service. The food is innovative and tasty. Fun to experiment with new combinations and flavors. Including tips we paid USD200. The weak dollar at the time helped, but it is great value for money. I REAL Michelin experience. I recommend it highly.

We were seated promptly. The food I have to say was a bit disappointing. I'm all for fussing different flavors, but the flavors should complement each other and not compete. I had the Hanger Steak Tartar on top of what seemed like freeze dried banana pudding and jam. I felt like I was eating my raw steak with desert. Without mentioning anything, several servers noticed I barely touched the tartar and asked if I wanted something else on the menu. I was grateful and quite impressed with the service. For my main entrée, I had the wagyu steak with peanut butter noodles. The flavors of the peanut butter were competing with the steak and onions. I left a little perplexed and didn't know what to make out of my experience. Overall a little disappointed.

While my girlfriend got the regular tasting menu and I opted for a personally customized vegetarian tasting menu. While we knew it would be pricey, the food we both enjoyed was more innovative than anything we've had before. While she was stuffed, I was quite satisfied with the portions as well. I especially recommend not looking at the menu to be surprised by the next dish coming. The bonus for us at the end of a wonderful night was being given a personal tour of the kitchen and meeting Chef Wylie Dufresne. That was indeed a rare treat!

A poor atmosphere with bright lights leads to a sub-par meal. The restaurant in an effort to be 'different' has missed the mark on nouveau cuisine. Rather than exploring new flavor combinations, they have thrown together different oddities of food that in no way combine on the palette. A chamomile yoghurt overpowers limp shrimp noodles...the artic char was bitter, salty, and came with the most hideous sauce. As the son of a french chef and a family of foodies, we were both dismayed and disappointed.

Amazing. After reading all the reviews on WD50, I must say that I was a little tentative heading there for dinner tonite. While I have always been on the adventerous side when it comes to food, my wife tends to be more conservative. That said, we both fully enjoyed our meals. For apps, we had the eggs benedict and the shrimp noodles....the noodles were intersting, the eggs benedict were one of the best things we have ever eaten. Entrees were the parsnip tart and the wagyu beef...both delicious. We enjoyed 2 desserts, the soft chocolate and the strawberries and banana...both amazing as well. I can understand why people moan and groan about this plate, so I offer the following advice. 1. This is a totally different food experience than you have ever had in your life. This restaurant is about having fun with food...something the chef clearly does. It is not conventional by any means, so you cannot go in there with those expectations. 2. Stay away from the tasting menu. It seemed WAY expensive. Our meal (2 apps, 2 entress, 2 desserts, coffee, tea and 1 beer) ran 180 tip included. The couple next to us had the tasting menu (sans wine), and their check was 395. 3. Service was exactly what you would expect from a restaurant of this caliber. Knowledgable staff, extremely attentive but unobtrusive. All things considered, this meal was less expensive than we anticipated, delicious and very memorable. BTW, Dufresne runs his own kitchen, which is visible to everyone in the restaurant. With all the celebrity chefs, it is nice to see one who actually cooks at his own joint.

I'm blown away by these ridiculous reviews, WD-50 is the real deal. We had 3 appetizers, 2 mains, and 2 deserts. Appetizers included the eggs benedict, the cuddlefish, and the foie gras. For our mains we had the scallops and the wagyu. The deserts included the strawberries and the soft chocolate. The only thing I wouldn't order again was the cuddlefish, not that it was bad, it's just something you only need to try once. The rest I am still day-dreaming about.