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| - I came here with a few friends for dinner, coming from a recommendation from Conde Nast Traveller. It is easy to walk past 361 Saint Paul E., and it is not clearly marked! Strangely, I'm a fan of that.
The food was good and the waiter emphasized that everything was homemade. Great! Ate too many breadsticks, which for the longest time we thought they were table decorations.
Oysters were fantastic - extremely fresh (one from PEI, one from NB), and the various sauces were fantastic.
The clam chowder with various white fish was good, but overly salted. Tuna was delicious. Pancakes for dessert with Pimms butter were super amazing!
Cocktails were good.
Decor: low key, homey, in the basement of a building. It was a little bit drafty though and we found ourselves constantly adding on layers of clothing.
Staff: super charismatic and funny, with great recommendations on food and drink. Not hard on the eyes either!
Only docking for the star would be that I was slightly disappointed on the "homemade" aspect of things - when something is homemade, I would expect that the taste would be out of this world. I did not find it so, particularly for the prices we were paying. But, a cool place no less.
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