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| - We walked past the place trying to find it, there is no signage so you've got to follow the numbers on the doors and mailboxes. We finally spotted the place because their name is fortunately on their health inspection sign (they passed, no worries). We were seated quickly and told there's limited seating time of an hour and a half, understandable as the entire place looked to have space for only about 25 patrons, including the bar. The menu is simple - a one pager without about a dozen tapas, a few larger portion mains, and a selection of cocktails and "communal" drinks. We got great explanations of the food items from our server and ordered a few tapas and a main dish to share. I found the service to be polite and honest, perhaps there's been improvement following the many bad reviews stemming from their service in the past.
For tapas we ordered the squash poutine, OS wings, the Loosey, and tempura chicken with deviled egg. Everything was flavourful and apparent in their fusion aspects. If you're into the kind of fusion where the main ingredients are western but the flavours and cooking styles are eastern, this is the place to be. For those looking for unexpectedly new combinations that just work and you wish you'd known about all your life - probably not the spot.
The squash poutine was squash home fries topped with a bunch of sauces that reminded me of Chinese food - the sauce to go with your fatty pork on rice - and takoyaki. There was also a bed of cabbage - to remind you of kimchi? Overall it was okay, a little bit skimpy on portion for the price.
I definitely recommend the Loosey, which is a miniature beef sandwich with slaw - the meat was flavourful and juicy, and the toasted bread went perfectly with it. It also easily splits in two for sharing, which was convenient for ordering with friends.
As to the tempura chicken...tasted like fish batter on chicken. If you ever want a very chewy filet-o-fish, this is it. The deviled egg was great, and I enjoyed the humour of placing chicken and egg at the same time on one plate. It was generally disappointing.
For the main dish we got Brick Chicken - it was a fried chicken base with Korean barbecue sauce, kimchi, and slaw, served with radish bun sheets and white rice. The radish and the spicy chicken went together surprisingly well and I enjoyed the refreshing bitter-sweet-savoury combination a lot, which rounded nicely into a spicy kick at the end. Unfortunately a lot of the sauce is wasted as the slaw slowly soaks it up - if you're hungry you can mix the rice in to get the last of it, though the bottom is mostly spicy sauce from the kimchi. This plate was a highlight of the items we got for the creativity and execution.
We also got a communal rice wine drink which was cutely served in a pot with small drinking bowls instead of cups. The bowls worked well to fit the slices of lime, though overall the rice wine was overshadowed by the lime and I felt like I was drinking an infinite vodka sour with the burn taken off.
For the price at the end I felt I didn't get my money's worth in portion size, nor the excitement of fusion Korean that I was hoping for. A cute place for sure, but I feel better quantity/quality for price can be found in other locations in the city.
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