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| - I decided to give this place a chance after I last visited here 3 years ago. Maybe things had changed, maybe they worked on the food and maybe it was worth the $$ that they charged their clientele.
The ambiance was just as beautiful and as classy when I walked in. But then I started looking at the details. I was there for a birthday and the tables that were set up were a complete mess. Some settings had main menus and sushi menus (I'll get on that in a minute), and some just had menus. I also acknowledge that this is a small thing, but it is the details for a place priced so high but even the sugar packet holder wasn't presentable. It looks like random packets were just jammed in while in a rush.
There were some good things though. I was told that the Penne Arbiatta sauce was good and I was really impressed that they had a change table for us to change our daughter.
Now the bad stuff.
When was the last time that you went to an Italian Bistro for the Sushi? Never right? Which it's why I'm as confused as to why there is sushi available on the menu here? It has no place and just indicates to me that the restaurant doesn't want to define its identity and bank on what it's good at (not that it is but what it assumes it's good at). I'm all for fusion restaurants, but not at a place called Bistro Grande.
I was curious about the Seafood Risotto for a kosher place, are they going to use Pollock? Are they going to use imitation seafood? No, when I asked about it, their Seafood Risotto included Tuna and Salmon. For $28, I just found that ridiculously overpriced. Mid to top range Seafood risottos would be priced around $22 and it would at least be true to what people would expect the dish to be. If I ordered this dish and received just Tuna and Salmon, I would be livid. I mean technically it's correct it is seafood, but it's not what most would expect from the order, meanwhile at a higher price.
I ended up ordering the Fettuccini Alfredo instead. I thought "there would no way they could screw that up and they got 2 of the 3 ingredients in the sauce. Parmesan cheese didn't seem to make it in though. So I just had Fettuccini in butter and cream. I had to pile it on the pasta after the fact to make it edible. I really wasn't impressed I wouldn't have priced this pasta higher than $9 and that would be even a stretch for me. The pasta was also WELL overcooked. It was the furthest thing of al dente that it fell apart on my plate. It's actually astonishing the lack of care that these dishes receive and are pushed out to customers.
I was also kind of confounded when we asked if we could get a smaller portion for our daughter to eat and we were told "No" we'd have to order a full portion meal which I wasn't prepared to do if it weren't for the fact that my daughter has the powerful need to eat on occasion.
The restaurant is also in a dead zone (at least for Rogers), so don't expect to tweet, Instagram, e-mail while you are here.
No, I wouldn't recommend going here. I was really unhappy with the food and the service (again).
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