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| - Came here with my parents, boyfriend and brother on Saturday - lots of wine, lots of laughs. Hats off to the impeccably cheerful service and the good vibes.
This isn't a great place to go with a tight budget and an empty stomach, but it's interesting and elegant plates throughout. The apps were all fresh and wonderful ingredients - little radishes, a gently smoked ham on sugar snap peas, a light herb soup - all a bit precious, but I get the fresh local ingredient worship and they really are good.
We had the Domaine de Lanes white which is fairly dry, mineral and clean - a perfect balance with almost everything. A borgogne was the other choice I believe - went well with my boyfriend's steak (which was small but extremely good) nice and earthy but stands up well. I had the smoked mackerel which was simple, not too smoked and warm(!) then the mushrooms, which were a huge highlight for me. Chanterelles are the steak of the mushroom world for those who question getting mushrooms as a whole course. I loved it it deeply. A blend of regional mushers in a light butter sauce with sea buckthorn thrown into the flavouring. Hot damn, fungi deluxe!
The dessert, "a deconstructed cheesecake" was ricotta and..I forget. To be honest we were all drunk and full at that point, but I remember finding it a bit salty, which was weird. So I guess I don't recommend it, but taste is taste.
Ultimately, this is a perfect place to take visitors - a true blue modern Toronto resto doing it right. Makes me love my neighbourhood just a little bit more, too.
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