spark-a review

for my 45th birthday we tried a new restaurant, spark. the setting was slick and clean, the plating was well thought out and hte flavors were wonderfully stated. where spark fell short was in the service, one in our group had their food arrive cold and had their comment to this affect completely ignored by the server, and the cost/serving size ratio was out of balance. Aesthetics, in visual presentation and flavors, could not counter balance the poor service or 'sparce' servings. $9 for an appetizer of one scallop, my beet salad (seen below) was also $9...my $18 plate of duo beef featured 5 gnoochis...all in our company found that 'sparce' would have been a better name for hte restaurant. It didn't spark much interest in returning...only conversations of disappointment. The art work on display was interesting, but clearly poor copies of other well know artist's work. Perhaps this young chef is also striving to copy other's work...