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| - My husband and I chose Muse for a date night dinner based on all the very good reviews on yelp (we're new to Calgary so we're trying lots of new places). Honestly, we felt the food and experience was pretty ordinary with a veneer of being posh/fancy.
The menu was limited and had very brief descriptions about each item, which allowed the servers to make a big deal of presenting each dish. They mentioned each ingredient in the dish as they set it before you. All fine, and fairly typical of nicer restaurants. However, the food was just okay. Yes, the truffle butter popcorn was tasty, but it's covered in butter, so what's not to like. I started with a vegetable soup and my husband had a pear salad. Both pretty good, but not that complicated of dishes. For mains, I had the suckling pig and he had the striped bass. Honestly, my pork was pretty bland tasting and same for cauliflower puree underneath. Not bad, but not amazing either. His fish was nice, but the squid in linguine underneath was very oily and bit overcooked. Again, not what we expected for a restaurant this expensive.
A few other things from our experience that we felt just didn't mesh well with Muse's intentions of being a $$$$ restaurant....
We were seated on the lower floor, which was nice and cozy, but the acoustics were terrible. There were four other tables seated around us, it was very loud and we could clearly hear everyone else's conversations. I'm not drinking at the moment, so my husband ordered two different white wines by the glass during dinner. Both were just average tasting, and not what we expected for the hefty $13 and $15 price tags per glass. The table settings didn't seem to fit the restaurant lofty goals either. They used beat up pint glasses as your water glass, and the silverware also looked sort of old and used. There were no bread plates on the table which meant we both had to keep reaching into the popcorn bowl with our hands - not a problem for us as a couple, but it might be a bit awkward for a mixed group at dinner. The napkins were just old and cheap looking - not the nice, large cloth napkins one would have expected. Lastly, there were a few tears in the booth we were seated at that were covered up with duck tape!
I know this review makes us sound super snobby about restaurants, but we're not....we love food trucks and pub food just as much as the next person. But for a restaurant with mains priced at close to $40 each and a tasting menu at $110 ($85 more if you add wine), Muse failed to meet our expectation pretty much across the board.
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