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| - Came in on a Monday night (Labour Day Monday to be exact) as I saw they had $1 corkage and buck a shuck oysters on Twitter. Nice! I've never been to a resto where you can bring your own wine (not in Canada, anyway) so this was a bit of a fun adventure for me!
I had a nice bottle of white from my birthday that we figured we'd enjoy while having dinner, so we brought that.
We sat at the bar while we waited for a table. Cool atmosphere, not much was fundamentally changed from this old Chinese restaurant till now... still old bar stools, low counter. I thought it was cool. The stools were a bit uncomfortable after half an hour or so... thankfully a table came up and we moved to a booth right in front of the kitchen.
We ate the oysters at the bar, the house sauces are great, nice flavour. We ordered the rest of our meal when we got to the table.
The cocktails we ordered and drank before we opened our bottle of wine were really nice. Some sort of tequila thing.
For food, we ordered the Filipino dish of the night which was chicken adobo.. and for the other dish we ordered beef carpaccio. We shared both. The adobo was okay, two pieces of chicken, nicely seasoned, on top of jasmine rice and veggies. The whole meal with tax was $57. The food was good, not great, but I am willing to give it another try.
I would absolutely go back and try other things on the menu, especially on a Monday when they have the same deal. Great price and good atmosphere. The service was really good and overall I'm a fan of this cool little joint.
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