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| - For Winterlicious this year, my family and I tried Annona. Having read the reviews I expected the quality we received, but I was hoping that my expectations would have been surpassed. 3 stars for the service and the food. The ambience is decent, but nothing special. Feels like a regular restaurant. It's on the first floor of the hotel, so there isn't much of a view. Like always, I wished the patrons looked like they actually put some effort into their appearance. This definitely takes away from the atmosphere.
Since it was the 3 of us, we ordered different things and taste tested from each other's plates. I ordered the Beef and Cabbage Pot Stickers (essentially beef dumplings), Korean Braised Shortrib, and the Baked Lemon Tart. My family also ordered the soup of the day, which was Butternut squash and lentil, and the Baby Kale and Miso Salad for the appetizers, the Salmon Gratinee with Lobster, and the Dark Chocolate Cherry Millefieulle. The table also came with flatbread, bread (with a cheesy center, real cheese), and tapenade.
My pot stickers were good, I enjoyed them. None of us really liked the soup, it lacked flavour/spices. The salad was alright, but nothing special. It was essentially kale with sesame seed dressing, with a few pieces of tangerine and mushroom. The short rib was decent. The meat was soft, appeared to have been marinated, and enjoyable. However, it came with plain white rice that had absolutely no spices, and I really expected more from such an establishment. The salmon was delicious, but came with max a tablespoon of mashed potatoes, and hardly had any lobster. The lemon tart was something that you could really get anywhere, and the cherry millefieulle was very chocolatey if you like that sort of thing. Honestly, I've had better food at Moxies. The presentation was fancy shmancey, but the quality and the taste was not. The salmon was better than most restaurants, but everything else was lacking for a hotel restaurant.
The service was lacking as well. Our server couldn't answer my questions well about the menu (perhaps because English wasn't his first language?), he never asked if we wanted something to drink, after we ordered something to drink we had to ask for our desserts (after waiting for close to half an hour), and even though I specified a fresh pot of coffee, he poured me the end of the pot (coffee ended before it filled my cup), so I asked for a fresh cup. The bartender prepared great B52 coffee's that my mom and grandma enjoyed.
I would eat here again if I had to, but I wouldn't be especially excited about it.
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