"Hearing a lot about District Kitchen, thought we’d try it. Typical modern decor for a fusion restaurant with very loud “club-like music.” Music was good but much too loud for dining. You literally have to scream your order and talk to each other at the table. Lighting was bad, had to use the flashlight on our mobile phones to see and read the menus and to go through 3 different separate menus. The service was lacking considering the restaurant wasn’t full. Most of the help was hanging around the entry way chatting. Ordered drinks and received 2 out of the 3 drinks after waiting more than 15 minutes. Then had to ask for the third drink (soda) after 25 minutes then received 2 separate glasses of soda in 2 different sizes. When we told the waitress who brought the 2nd glass that we got it, she had a disgusted attitude. The gimmick for this Asian fusion establishment was the XXLarge soup dumpling. That’s just it. A gimmick. Dumpling itself was tough to eat, thick, tough and doughy. Soup inside was salty and scarce in the stuffing of pork and shrimp. Tried it and a disappointment for $12 a pop. Then there’s the crispy sea bass. We ordered the sea bass with black bean sauce. The sea bass itself was small, not enough black bean sauce and not worth the $38 price tag. The salt and pepper calamari was bland. However, the sizzling beef in black pepper sauce with homemade noodles, braised pork belly and beef skewers appetizer were excellent. Then we asked for the dessert menu. Decent dessert menu but then what we wanted, they did not have which was 2 out of the 5 dessert items offered that the waitress failed to mention when she gave us the menu. Settled for the slice of chocolate fudge cake which was partly frozen and a little dry. Not returning to this restaurant!"
