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| - Since my last encounter with Hawthorne a year ago, I have always been dying to come back again. Chef Eric Wood's 4 square meal was delicious, creative, and memorable. All in all, great experience from food & beverage to service!
On our recent visit in January 2014, my friends and I have decided to drop by Hawthorne for a quick, light dinner before heading out to our board game night at Castle. I was very surprised to find out that Hawthorne has changed ownership! They have taken out the famous 4 square meal and no longer had the Yelp app check-in offer for free house made pop. #shocked #speechless.
Luckily, I saved a check-in offer a while back that I never used for Hawthorne. The server told me that the Yelp offer was taken out a long time ago, and was confused why I still have the offer hehehe... It was very nice of the server to still honour the free house made pop :) and so, we each received a free drink on the house! We all ordered their Ginger pop, which was sweet and refreshing. Sigh, but I do miss having my drink in a glass boot (see old photos!) lol.
Moving on, we ordered a few dishes to share:
- Smoked Salmon Crisps (2pcs) - tasted alright, wish there were more pieces!
- Buttermilk Fried Chicken (3pcs) - the coleslaw and aioli were a nice touch
- Mushroom Gnocchi - decent dish, flavours go well together :)
- Pulled Pork Poutine - loved the fries, but not enough meat, meat was a bit jerky-like
- Flourless Chocolate Torte - delicious cake, but the marinated salty(?) Hawthorne REALLY threw me off
- Lemon Creme Brulee - SO sour. RAWR. but one of my friend loved the tartness.
Overall, I felt that I did not enjoy it as much this time around, even though the food was not bad. I guess I was just a bit upset that the highly anticipated 4 square meal was taken off the menu. Service is still excellent - very friendly and accommodating, thank you so much! I believe there are still lots of room for improvement. Keep up the great work, Hawthorne. I shall be back :)
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