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| - Not sure why people are rating this place so well. The kitchen at Nota Bene completely lacks respect for the ingredients that they are working with.
The food isn't really as bad as the rating might suggest, but at this price point I feel I am well within my rights to rate it so low. For $100 to $150 (which you will have to spend in order to leave full) I can think of so many other places in Toronto that are light years better than Nota Bene.
So we went to Nota Bene before going to opening night of War Horse. Thankfully, War Horse was quite enjoyable.
Nota Bene was very disappointing. It seems like the kitchen really doesn't take much pride in the food they are serving. They justify high prices because they do use some very expensive ingredients, but they don't treat them with any respect.
Our lobster salad came with some very sad looking lettuce and beyond the blue cheese there was zero flavour.
My scallops were cooked quite well, but the kimchi was drenched in what I can only assume is the same chili sauce that I can buy in the grocery store. There was no subtlety in the food. Either the flavours were over the top to the point of being unpleasant or were basically non-existent. So despite the fact that the scallop was technically well cooked, a little bit crisp on the outside but still nice and moist on the inside, it completely lacked flavour. Worse, if you take one bit of the kimchi, because of the super salty store bought chili sauce, you won't be able to taste anything else that you put in your mouth after that for a good 3-4 mouth fulls.
I might be a food snob (...well I am a food snob...), but I find it completely unforgivable for a restaurant with main course dishes priced at $25 plus to serve me sauces that were purchased at the grocery store. WTF I can buy chili sauce from the grocery store! In fact I can make my own chili sauce better than the stuff at the grocery store. So if you are going to charge me over $25 for scallops with kimchi you really shouldn't be putting anything on the plate that wasn't made from scratch in your kitchen.....Oh and part of this rant is because the people next to us got the hamburger and it came with what was most definitely store bought ketchup, mustard and mayo. ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE SUPER EASY TO MAKE. Please do not insult your customer by feeding them something they could squeeze out of the bottle themselves. That or significantly lower your prices. If your burger was $10, sure, fine, give me the Heinz ketchup, but your CHARGING $22! MAKE THE DAMN KETCHUP IN HOUSE!
For those of you who have read some of my other reviews. Nota Bene is going to replace Blu as the whipping boy fine of dinning in future reviews. At least at Blu the food was alright, it was just completely devoid of any character or imagination. Nota Bene, for the price that you are going to have to pay, is down right bad.
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