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| - My wife and I came here on a quiet Wednesday evening, which I couldn't believe because they have half-off bottles of wine on wednesdays. The atmosphere in a booth was nice and you could see the whole restaurant and the kitchen from where i was sitting. We got a bottle of the cabernet franc and thought it was just ok.
For food, I ordered their special salad, asparagus spears with hen of the woods mushrooms and monforte tomme cheese and shallot vinaigrette and my wife had the chickpea and fennel soup. The salad was very pleasant, the soup was a little spicy and lacked a creaminess that I'd expect from a blended soup.
For mains, I had the ricotta gnocchi with wild mushrooms and arugula and the special vegetable of the day, fiddleheads in ramp butter. My wife had the buttermilk fried chicken with a slaw salad. While I was expecting traditional-looking gnocchi, what I got was 7-8 3 centimeter rolls of gnocchi dough filled with ricotta cheese. It was simple and delicious. The fiddleheads were the same - very pleasant. My wife liked the chicken but was a little concerned about some redness inside. I assured her it was ok, but didn't say that I thought it was probably because the chicken wasn't cooked super fresh (I imagine they pre-cook the chicken before they batter and fry the chicken).
Overall, the meal was super fresh (with the potential exception of the chicken) and the flavors were very clean and identifiable. I liked that the food wasn't covered in thick , creamy flavors and that after all that food, we had enough room to have an order of the chocolate bread-pudding with butterscotch ice cream. The pudding was a bit sweeter than I'd normally like, but that's more so that I don't feel like such a glutton for enjoying such a rich dessert.
We enjoyed everything and would come again should we ever happen upon Toronto again.
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