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| - Surprised this spot would be so mobbed on a Saturday night, esp. with so many other great restos in Toronto. But crowded it was, and I managed to secure a bar stool all my own. The vino I selected was one of my faves, Montepulciano, which I'd been slugging down earlier at Squirly's. It came in a big drinking glass and not a wineglass, and I always feel like I'm getting more wine that way (though I'm probably not).
I started with the roasted beet salad with scallion aioli and lotus chips, a wise choice and a delicious one. I was torn for my next course and asked the bartender what she'd recommend, mentioning that I was a semi-vegetarian who ate fish. She suggested the grilled sardines, which I'd been thinking about ordering. Well, I now think she suggested them because they were so bad that no one was ordering them and they had to get rid of them! They were HUGE (considering that I'd only eaten the tiny canned sardines in the past), and they had HEADS. I quickly asked her to please remove the heads because they were upsetting me. Head removal couldn't save them, as they were possibly the boniest fish I'd ever eaten....and they tasted nothing like the canned sardines I'd had before. WHY didn't I go with the avocado bruschetta I'd thought about....their bread was baked with rosemary and impossible to stop eating. I can only imagine how tasty it would've been with avocado....Next time!
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