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| - If you want to eat outside under a tent, this is the place and it's fun. You can bring your wine and that's a plus in any restaurant in Quebec. Even low quality table wines are very expensive in this area. We were a group of 10 friends and sat this Saturday outside to have a great meal.
We were very disappointed.
We each took something different from the table d'hôte. What was recommended was the braised pork and the veal liver. Those two dishes were reportedly very tasty and somewhat copious. You can't go wrong either with the bisque and the endive salad.
What our friends did not like was the tasteless and tough steak of bavette (flank steak), the very small portion of veal kidneys (six small pieces floating in their sauce), the fish of the day that was covered with a blueberry sauce to hide the burned sides, the insipid ris de veau (calf sweetbread) fried until they're hard like a rock. As for vegetables in your plates, you can eat them all in a single mouthful.
If this restaurant advertised itself as new cuisine, we would have understood the lack of food in our plates. But it's not.
The table next to us was so disgusted with the food and the service that they left without paying. They were also told that they could not smoke in that area, which was okay with me but not them. You can't enjoy a meal surrounded by the foul and acrid smell of cigarette smoke.
The boss told the waitress, Evelyn, that she would have to pay the $360 from her own salary and tips. She was crying when she came to collect of bills and we gave her more tips than usual.
All in all, it was not a good experience in food tasting, but the ambiance is great and we were with great friends.
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