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 | 	- I was so excited for this place to open, being in my new neighbourhood and all. We decided to go on my birthday.....Mistake. 
We arrived around 8PM and I have to say when we walked in I expected it to be more dim lit. The light seemed kind of harsh to me for that time of night. Anyways, we get seated without a problem but two tables over are screaming toddlers at a table with balloons, (birthday twinsies? cool. whiney wandering children? Not so much) I mention whiney because one of their children kept walking around screaming and going straight into the bar area which was right by our table.. real nice.
So right away the ambience wasn't great, then our server came over. I think she must have been very green to the hospitality scene because she wasn't quite on it. We asked immediately for a bottle of wine to start (since it was about 10 min wait till she came over initially) and I had to ask her when she came back to take our order where our bottle was about another 10 minutes later.
When she did come over to take our order, we asked her a few questions on the menu (Size of dishes, personal preferences, flavours, etc.) and she couldn't answer even what was on their charcuterie only that it has "some nuts and meat" great. thanks. 
We ended up ordering the mussels, charcuterie and scallops... we asked her, if we are hungry will this feed us? "oh yes, this is a lot of food" she says.
Yeah.... when the food arrives I could have crushed it all myself in a single sitting. The charcuterie was one of the saddest little presentations I've seen in a long time with about 6 slices of meat, 6 crostini's and pine nuts with roasted garlic and some jelly. Mussels were nice, they had an east Indian flair but I also thought it was on the small side. Scallops... meh. 
There was no quality check after we received our food except to come and retrieve the plates and I'm not sure about this establishment but usually when we order a bottle of wine your server comes by to pour, but we ended up just pouring ourselves. 
Overall our service was bad, food mediocre, ambience bad, and the prices did not match up to any of the quality. I am always happy to pay for a good experience, especially regarding food, but this... urg. I hope it gets better because as it stands now, I see this as a "been there, done that"
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