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| - The food is delicious. It's over the top. It's inventive. It's excessive. It will make your arteries clog and you won't care if this is your last meal. You can almost feel the grease on the tables and floors when you enter - not kidding. This is Au Pied de Cochon!
I tried several things here. The Poutine with Foie Gras, Duck Capparcio, Veal Steak, Duck in a can, Melting pot, the Au Pied de cochon stuffed with Foie Gras. Everything was fantastic and prepared with maximum flavour. You'll go into a food coma after but it's well worth the indulgence. Save your appetite and prepare to detox before and after this meal.
My only issue with the food here is that it is too rich. It's delicious but the dishes were unbalanced with mostly all meat with rich but smaller sides. I found myself reaching for some of the bread just to dilute the flavours in my mouth, as the sides tasted very buttered up (although tasty). Normally, this would enough to bring it down to 4 stars but this place deserves 5 because the prices were very reasonable for the quality and quantity of food and the inventive nature of the dishes was just unmatched.
My recommendations for first-timers is to consider sharing mains because they are huge. If you don't eat a lot, then sharing a main is probably is a good thing. If, or I should say when, I do it again, I'll probably force a side or two in the mix to balance the meal better. Maybe use some apps to replace a main because it could be meat overload for some people. You can do what you want so don't feel constrained. Out of everything I tried, the Foie Gras Poutine and Duck Capparicio were stand outs.
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