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| - It was only last week that I was here for my birthday dinner, courtesy of fellow Yelp Elite Karl R. Earlier this week, I came with 2 co-workers for their Summerlicious lunch.
Upon entering we noticed that each table already had bread baskets sitting out in the open. Minor detail but it only made me assume that the bread we were about to consume was going to be stale.
I ordered the Wild & Tame Mushroom Soup made with 6 different kinds of mushroom and it is specifically highlighted that the soup is made sans cream or butter. The soup was quite good, with the nice nuttiness and earthy taste of the blend of mushrooms. My dining companions both had the Peekytoe Crab Cake. I noticed there was a discrepancy in the tint of the batter - one seemed like it was fried in fresh oil, while the other seemed as if it had been fried in thousand-year oil. The crab cake was served with a cucumber-dill salad and creole remoulade sauce. I got to sample a piece, and thought that it was quite tasty. The lump crab meat mixture was held together nicely with a creamy texture.
For mains we all ordered the Pulled Pork Sandwich w/ Coleslaw and Chips. I was totally not expecting actual (kettle) chips to show up on my plate - but sure enough it did. The coleslaw was pretty dull and boring and lacked any real flavour. I have never had a pulled pork sandwich before, but I thought that the sandwich bun was quite tasty, and that the pulled pork was nicely seasoned with a barbecue sauce and caramelized onions. However, the 2 ladies I dined with, who have had more than their fair share of pulled pork sandwiches said that the one at Jump was awful - so awful that one of the ladies didn't get past 2 bites.
For dessert I ordered the Butterscotch Panna Cotta. Although it is advertised to be served with salted caramel, all I got were big salt flakes sprinkled on top of a plain panna cotta, with a butterscotch drizzle. The salt flakes really gave you a hit of sodium upon contact with your tongue - something I wasn't expecting of a dessert item. With that said, the panna cotta was extremely creamy, and I absolutely loved the dollop of vanilla spice sweet cream that came with it.
The other ladies ordered the Lemon Sour Cream Cake w/ lemon curd & blueberry sauce as well as the Amaretto Chocolate Marquise Cake. The Lemon cake did not have a blueberry sauce, it was just served with 2 blueberries. One of the ladies lamented that she wondered whether the lemon curd was out of a jar because it was so sweet. I, myself quite enjoyed the lemon sour cream cake as I felt the cake base was airy and light and not overly sweet and went well with the lemon curd. The chocolate Marquise cake is not something one should brave without a coffee or tea as it is an extremely rich dessert!
Verdict:
A few minor errors were made (e.g. cocktails coming out after appetizers were served, not asking if we wanted coffee or tea with dessert). The thing that really put us off was when we found the bottom of one of our dessert dishes covered in gunk. It made us wonder just how clean our dishes were... All in all for $20 during Summerlicious I would come back again - but not if I had to pay full pop. The crowd is older, and it wasn't all that busy considering it was lunch time AND Summerlicious at the same time. Perhaps a sign that this is one of the "has been" restaurants in the financial district.
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