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| - Pathetic! That's one word to describe my dinner experience tonight. We saw ku kum under the best new restaurant under Toronto life, and by looking at the menu it's definitely intriguing.
We had a reservation for Saturday night and waited at the door for a while with no one greeting us. Not a big deal as you could see the servers talking at the back. As soon as we got seated it took around 15 mins until the server got to our table to get our order. First thing that was said if we know what to order or have any questions. No hi or hello to start. But ok, getting straight to the point. We did have a lot of questions in our mind and I believe the restaurant has a story to tell specially how the cuisine is "indigenous" a little romancing and background story would have been great so that right there was a bit lacking. We settled for the fish app and meat pate app to start elk entree for main.
For the fish app- seal tartare, smoked trout and Beet cured smoked salmon, salmon was out so we got double trout.
The seal was intriguing to eat since it was our first time having it, it has a very irony finish and a sharp onion flavour. That's pretty much the flavour profile of the dish. Not a fan but at least I could say I tried it.
Smoked salmon trout was probably 1oz pcs, was good but super small for the plate. The dish was served with a toast cut in half
Meat trio- elk rillette, rabbit liver , terrine.
Elk rillette was good, jerk flavour a little dry but flavour was outstanding.
Rabbit liver with truffle smooth and delicious
Terrine was a 5 animal terrine, was good too very fatty melts in your mouth.
Served with a toast cut in half.
Ordered side toast since no way the toast they serve was enough. Its called bannock which was a dense white bread. Made in house. Good but not great. Oh this was $6 extra! I mean I just paid for a $22 & $18 appetizer, and you barely gave any toast with it.... c'mon!
We waited for our plates to get cleared for 20mins since no one really came to our table to check us out.
Our elk entree came, our server explained it to be medium rare elk before ordering it but sadly it came well done covered in sauce. The elk was served with beets beans and Sunchokes, Sunchoke puree, a demi. This dish was really underwhelming charred and dried elk crust covered in demi, looking at other people's picture they had this beautiful red meat, but not for us....
Who ever cooked our elk knew it was fucked up and covered the elk with sauce, such a sad way hiding a mistake. Not to mention the puree was cold, and the steak was cold too, being well done already I wonder how long the steak was sitting around.... embarrassing and chef didn't catch this?? $26 blogTO says elk was sous vide wow take a genius to get the medium rare to well done with a sous vide machine....
No one checked on us to see how things were so we didn't bother saying anything. We were done eating and didn't really want to continue on, but it took another 20 mins looking for service to come and trying to catch someone's attention.
The whole dinner was dragging , service was horrible, food could have been good and the concept was great but the execution for tonights dinner was definitely not worth being in the top new restaurant for 2018.
I wouldnt go back nor would I recommend this to anyone. My rating is not only for the food but for my whole dinner experience, including service and ambiance.
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