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| - Tourist trap! Don't be fooled like I was!
If you have a lot of money and don't know what to do with it, why don't you just give it to me? I'll make you something! I swear it will be more delicious than what you eat here, and I've never even been to chef school.
Notable: Place has nice bathrooms with nice-smelling mango hand lotion. Maybe stop in to pee on your way through Old Montreal?
Unfortunately, that was the only notable thing about this place, other than the way-too-high prices. Oh, we also liked the free baguette w/ olive oil way better than our entrees. Shared some of the house red with my partner, which was fine. We came here because it was all that was open, we were sick of wandering around on a -30 day, and they had some veggie options on the menu.
I would put the food at maybe a 1.5 or 2, but combined with the exorbitant price, it is definitely a 1. My partner had a pasta dish and also rated it as a 'meh', which was unfortunate since I think it was around $30, more expensive than mine. I got some kind of veggies put on top of each other like a leaning tower of pisa, and the smallest little lump of quinoa you ever did see. The side salad, also miniscule, was clearly made with the 'spring mix' you get from a box at the grocery store. It is smart to judge a place based on its salads - if the dish is more than $10, a box salad green mix is completely unacceptable IMO. The veggies - I would argue boring veg fare, as they are in like every single vegetarian dish made by people who do not understand how to do anything interesting with non-meat items - included zucchini, red pepper, and tomato, all of which were saturated in oil as to be almost tasteless. Sat way too heavy in my stomach, and way too little quinoa to help balance out the oil from the veg. Newsflash, just lopping excess oil on something does not make it 'gourmet.'
Service was fine. I got leftovers in a take-away box but ended up throwing them out. (I NEVER DO THAT.) Couldn't bring myself to eat it. Too icky.
Probably the worst value for dollar I have gotten in a LONG time.
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