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weekend getaway/ Anniversary in Montreal. I say dirty because we pretty much sullied our regularly disciplined diets with red meat (The Horror!) via Montreal smoked sandwiches and decadent Italian fare thanks to Bice.
It's a gorgeous resto with an impressive array of beautiful fresh flower arrangements throughout which really blew me away. We got seated on the spacious patio in front of the topiary-esque festooned wall of greenery. The clientele was a little Euro-trash but I myself was tricked out in painful blister-worthy Louboutins and a bodycon dress so I guess, I looked appropriately "goomar-ish"! Hey I figure I'm in Montreal might as well tramp it up!
Quite surprisingly, for a restaurant chain, Bice's food is absolutely belissima! Fresh and flavourful and what you'd expect upscale Italian cuisine to be. For our antipasti we shared the fried crab cake with lime and black pepper mayo, grilled corn, cucumber and coriander salsa. Twas so good that hubby bogarted two of the three crab cakes. For our mains I ordered the Braised veal agnolotti with wild mushroom sauce, which was divine, while hubby got the Blackened tuna with almond-olive and lemon vinaigrette, grated fresh horseradish, roasted Brussels sprouts and king eryngii mushrooms. To polish off our dinner we shared a delectable Chocolate lava cake.
Forget about "Just for Laughs" we had our very own entertainment right here at Bice! Between me inconspicuously eyeballing the saucy waiters ( who btw didn't give a toss about me, but were quite taken with my hubby!) and us watching the resto manager failing miserably at trying to pick up the attractive lesbian couple dining beside us (c'mon guy, really?) we had a blast!
Yes it was pricey, about $225 with tip included for two apps, two mains, dessert ,champagne, beer and a Macallen single malt but this was my anniversary dinner dammit! Besides I think hubby brilliantly chose Bice for our seductively ,epicurean meal to butter me up so he could get lucky later that nite ;)
When in Montreal and when you are craving Italian gastronomic decadence that could put a Fellini film to shame, I encourage you experience La Dolce Vita at Bice Restaurant.
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