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The service was pretty nice - our water was refilled several times during our stay and the lady serving us was really accommodating when I asked if I could switch the lemon cake I'd previously ordered for dessert with the ice-cream sandwich! The person serving the bread was very slow though (he came around almost right before we tucked into our mains) and the dish of butter he gave us only had three balls of butter even though our table clearly was for four (and strangely enough, it looked like one ball of butter had been removed?).
I ordered the beef carpaccio and it was alright. The beef had a sufficient amount of fat to have some flavour, but were not strong enough to stand up to the intense flavour of the pickled vegetables. The parmesan was incredibly stinky (in a good way!) but the dish as a whole was not spectacular. My mom had the tuna tartare and for some reason, I couldn't taste much tuna in it....none of the flavours really popped out at me.
The main course was really disappointing. We had the halibut cooked in the banana leaf and we were really excited when the servers arrived at the table to open up the packages for us. However, when they did, we were greeted with an unappealing grey mess that tasted far from spectacular. The flavour of the smoked banana leaf and the ginger used in the recipe were overpowering and the flakiness of the fish was due to the fact that it was overcooked. The root vegetables were a pleasure to eat though, perfected cooked and sweet in the way that they get after their starches have turned to sugar.
Although my dad and my sister's ice-cream sandwiches came out perfectly, my ice-cream had started melting. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I had a bit more time to enjoy it (it was really tasty ice-cream!), BUT it was the best thing I'd eaten all day. The chocolate cookies it was sandwiched between were perfectly fudgy and a delight to eat. I was expecting not to like the banana lollipop as it was covered in white chocolate (most white chocolate available at supermarkets are over-sweetened and artificial-tasting, not creamy at all), but I was glad to be proven wrong!
Overall, I had an enjoyable dining experience but I expected more from the Head Judge of Top Chef Canada :(
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