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| - The complimentary bread came first and it was alright. Nothing special. To start we got the lobster bisque, which I'd say was too salty and came out barely warm. It's probably the first time that I've seen a fine dining restaurant serve food that wasn't hot enough. Pretty disappointing appetizer considering this is a seafood place.
For my main, I got the stuffed rainbow trout which was... okay. Again, I thought it was too salty and the taste didn't match the price tag. Portion size is small so do heed the advice of the waiter in getting a side with your main. We got asparagus for the side, which turned out to be quite tasty and pretty large.
My wife got the weekly feature.. some mixed grill of seafood with risotto, which was actually delicious and definitely the best dish of the night. I hope they offer it regularly. This dish was a 5/5.
The inside of this restaurant is nice, although I wouldn't say it's amongst the best in Toronto despite the price of the food here. The service wasn't great either. We walked in and the hostess seemed confused. She immediately pointed us to the bar area, and then a waiter pointed us back to the hostess who seemed shocked we had a reservation for dinner (she never asked us when we walked in). Some of the staff who arrived to serve the dinner plates seemed grumpy and cold.
With the hit and miss food I would've given this place a 3/5 but the end to the meal was unpleasant. When we ordered the lobster bisque, we had let the waiter know that we wanted one lobster bisque and that we were going to just share it. Normally, restaurants just bring you the appetizer as is or give you an extra plate/bowl to share it, and some restaurants with great service even split it for you. What this place did was give us two full bowls of soup. I initially thought they were just being generous because we said we hadn't been here before. What they ended up doing was charge us for two cups of lobster bisque, which we hadn't asked them to do nor were we ever informed until the bill arrived. So it ended up being $20 for lobster bisque that was supposed to cost $12. Very sneaky. We were in a hurry so we didn't bother to argue with the waiter. They got their extra $8 but we won't be back.
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