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| - There are not a lot of foodies out here in Durham (lets be honest), but for those who are looking for an awesome place to enjoy some quality fine dining out here in Whitby area and beyond, THIS IS THE PLACE. Although this is a french restaurant, some of their pasta dishes are good enough that I would consider this a place for some good Italian style food too - of course the ingredients are not as typical of a italian restaurant, but there definitely are elements of that :)
I love this restaurant. I've tried appeitzers, pasta, and desserts. They are ALL GOOD! The prices are pretty reasonable given the quality of food that you are getting.
They first gave us a bit of sausage as a "pre-appetizer", then i ordered the shrimp and lobster bisque, crabcake and their dessert, one of my all-time favourite (so much that one time i stopped by just to buy it as takeout for my fiance's mom) - banana cheesecake.
Shrimp and lobster bisque:
- definitely super flavourful. Lots of action packed into this little bowl of soup. My only comment was that i felt the bisque was a bit too salty - yes the flavour is rich, but the salt kind of overpowered the soup just a tad bit. But otherwise i love the soup, because it taste like it's actual bisque made from scratch, not sure if people know what lobster broth taste like, but that taste is definitely there when i'm eating the soup.
Crabcake:
- super flakey, and the size is HUGE! I wasn't expecting such a large portion, but i'm glad tha'ts all i ordered because it was filling! lots of flavour in the crabcake as well, battered really well, and I love how it's super flaky so it's not very dense in the breading. topped off with their sauce on the side. amazing! my only comment: next time i would like the sauce on the side, because when you put it around the crab cake in the dish, it's too much sauce for my liking - I prefer to dip mine separately. But great appetizer to have!
Banana cheesecake:
- how can one go wrong on this. you can actually buy a whole cheesecake for 75 bucks lol. OR buy it by the slice. The first time i went by just to get it I felt kind of embarrassed, but the waiter there was super nice and told me that in fact the cheesecake is so well known that people buy it as take out all the time (which is also the same time i found out you can buy the whole cake lol). Anyway, I don't know about you, but this banana cheesecake is AMAZING! it's soft, moist, full of banana flavour and yet you can still taste the cheesecake!
anyway all in all, definitely a must try. I tried their pasta on other occasions as well - pasta always fresh made, you can definitely taste the difference when the pasta is freshly made. Sauce is great - in general the dish is a bit on the saltier side than I would've liked, but the composition of the pasta dishes is very well made. I've had the buttersquah ravioli and the seafood linguine.
Also - tried the sea bass. AMAZING! it was so well done, soft, moist, flaky and just melted in your mouth! if you love fish, definitely give one of their seasonal/feature fish dishes a try!
These guys also own Tetra restaurant as well in Bowmanville! Foodies out in Bowmanville probably already know about this little gem :)
They currently still have the THURSDAY PASTA NIGHT! until January of this month tho... not sure if they are gonna keep it on afterwards, but it's an amazing deal! pasta, wine and dessert for 30 bucks!
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