| rev:text
| - We had a wonderful birthday celebration dinner here last night. Reservations made online were easy and a confirmation call was received the afternoon of the meal. I'll start out by saying we could not have been an easy table! I have Celiac disease, my friend has an anaphylactic peanut allergy and her husband is gluten intolerant. The manager served our table because of these food issues and did a wonderful job of guiding us on the menu as well as coming back and checking if he was told by the chef of possible cross-contamination. The restaurant also very graciously allowed us to bring in a gluten free birthday cake that my partner had ordered for me. They brought it out with a candle on a China plate then took it back and cut and plated it. Overall, the service of the night was excellent.
It is a small plates style restaurant and everything is presented beautifully. There was not one dish that we didn't enjoy and we ordered a second order of the beet salad it was so flavourful! We shared the beet salad, razor clams, ontario pickerel, short ribs, duck confit, buratta and fries (i abstained from the fries-they are fried in the same fryer as gluten products). As we ate we commented on how surprised we were by the different dishes. The buratta was sweeter than expected, the razor clams were chilled rather than hot and the pickerel was hot, not chilled. These were all pleasant surprises based on our (incorrect) assumptions taken from menu description.
The decor is beautiful - purple walls, black furnishings, black and white photos on the walls and lovely light fixtures.
The cocktail list is one that makes me want to come back frequently to try a new one.
A great way to spend a Saturday night with friends!
|