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  • I've gone here on several occasions and I've felt compelled to write a review of this place. Lunches: Nothing special. They range in price from $10-20 and aren't particularly good. The stupid thing about their lunches is that they choose the dessert for you. So on several occasions, they've chosen the cheapest, most unflattering dessert for their patrons...all of which I've eaten a bite off and had enough. Christmas dinner: $42/person - prix fixe DON'T EVER GO. That is all I have to say...and here is why a) Salad & appetizer - coleslaw w/ Norwegian Smoked Salmon & Duck Confit Coleslaw was nothing special at all. It lacked flavour and taste. The duck confit was not tender at all and also lacked taste and was quite bland. As for the smoked salmon, it didn't taste that great at all. Just ordinary normal smoked salmon. b) Soup - Lobster bisque w/ puff pastry By puff pastry, they mean a random block of phyllo puff on your soup just randomly floating around. The lobster bisque was absolutely horrible being that it seemed like it was mixed with corn starch to thicken the soup and watered down because they were too cheap to make a real lobster bisque. I couldn't bring myself to finish that thing and drank less than half of this soup. c) 1st course - half de-boned quail in cranberry sauce First of all, my quail was most definitely boned. Second of all, they gave you a little quail thigh. The cranberry sauce was minimal and I honestly wondered where it was as I was eating the quail. Quail was also very chewy and lacked tenderness and flavour. d) Entrees - New Zealand Rack of Lamb OR US Choice Filet Mignon w/ Goose Liver Pate OR Lobster & seafood Pasta OR Filet of Grouper with Sauteed Scallop I had 3 out of 4 entrees to try. The NZ rack of lamb was NOT cooked to perfect and the rosemary sauce and other gravies they put onto the lamb absolutely ruined it for me. The sauce made the lamb taste like dish detergent so I'm not sure what Rosemary sauce was used but rosemary does NOT taste like that. The US Choice Filet mignon was NOT actual filet mignon. It was chewy, untender, and had gravy splattered all over it. What is worse is that it had goose liver pate on TOP of the filet mignon. I thought it was going to be off on the side but that pate was slathered on the filet mignon as if the filet mignon was toast or something. The pate was disgusting and totally ruined the taste of the filet mignon. Also, the gravy splattered over it made it even worse. What made me even more upset was that the side consisted of a frozen vegetable assortment of corn, peas, and beans. Honestly, it was as if it was dumped out of a Green Giant bag and dumped onto my plate. The grouper also was hard boiled and lacked any flavour at all. There was a total of one scallop in that whole dish. Also green giant vegetables. e) All you can eat dessert & coffee/tea Dessert was the only thing that was great. Their meringue is one of the best meringues that I have ever had and they've honestly perfected that to a T. Their best merignques are the mocha meringue and the strawberry meringue. Their jam cookie is also great - which consists of a shortbread sandwiched with strawberry jam and sprinkled with icing sugar. For $42 per person, I thought that was an absolute waste of my time and money. Their service, although not horrible, was not particularly great and had they not already slapped a 15% gratuity on their bill, I would not have given that at all. The food was just unpleasant that night and thank goodness their meringue made the experience slightly less unpleasant. I think my whole family has agreed that we will NEVER come back here for any dinners because we all feel as if their Christmas dinner, they've skimped out a lot. I'm not paying $42 again to drink watered down lobster bisque and not-real filet mignon. 2 stars. Will not return unless I'm buying pastries for take-out.
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