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| - I came upon Hemispheres when I was out on a Winterlicious expedition with some people from my school. While the experience itself was decent, I can't in good conscience give these guys better than a 3/5.
Here's my general breakdown, but we'll go over each course as I continue. I give them 1 for the presentation, 1 for the quality of the food, and 1 for the service.
I give a -1 for a sheer ineptitude to accommodate for allergies in their dessert choices ("we can't guarantee because the entrees are made offsite" is no longer acceptable to me, as I had a pleasant experience in every other place I'd attended without hesitation from the waiter); having to eat "the only option that was guaranteed to not have peanuts" was a fruit platter (pictured below). I really dreaded it, since the papaya yogurt tasted bland and the fruit itself had a distinct lack of freshness - as if it had been cut ages ago, but was left out to dry for whenever some unsuspecting patron would have to eat it, because the other two options were unavailable to them.
I give another -1 for the value-for-money ratio. I paid $35 for a tiny appetizer, a mid-sized entree, and one "option" for dessert. This is not something I would recommend if I had to pick a place to go again, but that's mainly because the ribeye steak I'd ordered had way too much fat on it, and little to no actual steak. While I realize that ribeye definitely has some fat trim on it, in my instance there was almost a 1/3rd portion that consisted of this fatty material, none of which I ate.
The portion sizes are unreasonably small - it felt atrocious overall. I would be totally OK with paying $25, maybe $30 (that's pushing it, let's be honest) for this three-course meal, but I would not recommend this place to go to for a Winterlicious excursion. This is probably a great restaurant otherwise, but here is my unfiltered experience as I interpret it.
The reason I say that the portion sizes are unreasonable is because I actually did not feel full after eating here. While it may have been because of the "presentation of the food" is what a patron is paying for, you'll know from my other reviews that value-for-money is important to me. While the taste wasn't terrible, it was barely average. Saying the taste was "above average" is definitely pushing it outside of the appetizer. The smoked salmon appetizer that I picked was actually quite good in terms of overall flavour and taste, but as with the other courses, the portion size was pretty tiny.
Overall, I didn't feel as if paying $35 was worth it for the extreme lack of food I was given to eat.
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