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| - My friend is back in town visiting from Australia, she is staying with her mum who lives in Valley Ridge, where the only thing nearby for eating is a Dennys.
After a quick Yelp search for some sort of decent eats, I found LeVilla was only a 15 min drive away.
Seriously Valley Ridge, WTF.
We had a very nice time at LeVilla, the restaurant space is very beautiful, the kitchen is open and the walls are adorned in large round stones. It was quite cozy given the frigid temperatures outside. Our table was in the sunroom/atrium. I am not really sure how to describe it, there is a fireplace in here and windows that were covered in snow. They did an amazing job keeping the place warm though considering all the glass in this room. I had a space heater set-up behind my chair.
Our waitress was prompt in the beginning and very polite, we ordered a bottle of wine for the table and my fiancé ordered a beer. She came back with the wine, but was out of the beer he had ordered. Our waitress had gone ahead and selected another beer (that was nothing like the beer he ordered) for him to try. He hates making a fuss, so accepted the proffered beer anyways. She then told us the soup of the day, roasted tomato/basil. I was having a hard time deciding, their menu has lots of fantastic options on it; so we told her to come back in a few minutes.
She came back and my fiancé ordered the ginger beef pot stickers, which they were also out of. It would have been nice if she had mentioned that they were out of certain items when she told us the soup of the day. So three of us ordered the feature soup and there was also baked brie and parmesan frites to be had.
Mains consisted of gnocchi, salmon, halibut and the duck.
The good: parmesan frites, the duck
The average: baked brie, salmon, gnocchi, halibut
The bad: the feature soup wasn't very warm and was surprisingly bland. I would rather pay $6 bucks and have the tomato bisque soup from Safeway than the $8 per bowl of this disappointment with a spoon.
We ventured forth to dessert, and the creme brulee and the pecan pie were both respectively, very nice.
We had a pleasant time, the ambience was lovely, food was enjoyable, service was fine. I will probably be back if I need a spot to enjoy a bite in that area.
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