Cindy's Rooftop's inexplicable popularity.
My date wanted to go because she heard it had an amazing view. Which it does. But I don't understand literally anything else about this place. The menu is a total hodgepodge. There's one pasta, a couple salads, some oysters and just a bunch of other stuff that doesn't go together. It feels like they just threw a bunch of shit at the walls and called it a menu. We settled on a rainbow trout which ended up being a plain, unseasoned filet on a bed of creamy cannellini beans which were also unseasoned. And a really boring brick chicken that was similarly under-seasoned. Honestly, the best thing we ate was some fries we got because none of the other sides sounded good. But it was priced like they had all the Michelin stars. The fish was $38 and chicken was $44. Despite all that, it was really hard to get a reservation and the place was packed. I just don't get it. Like, at all.