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| - A considerable disappointment. I found this place while going to the Rona's hardware store nearby and was excited to try a high-class Italian place near where I live, but unfortunately, this restaurant was something of a let-down.
First of all, service was very, very, very slow. While the staff seemed young and pleasant, it took them 10 minutes after I sat down before finally coming by to ask what I wanted to drink or what my order was. I ordered a cheese garlic bread and a honey-garlic salmon, and then it was nearly another half hour before I finally got the food.
The garlic bread was good, though not cheap ($6) for just four pieces. But there's plenty of cheese and butter and the flavour was good. Unfortunately, the salmon was a huge letdown. It's $20, not that cheap, but they failed to get any flavour inside of the fish and most of the fish was tasteless and oily, and even quite fishy. They did do a good job pan-searing the thin portion so it's crispy, but it tasted like it wasnt marinated or flavoured. The only flavour came from the sauce, which was definitely not what I'd call honey garlic; it tastes more like some kind of fruit-based sweet sauce, apple or peach, and it jarred painfully with the fish. There was also so little of it that it didn't come close to adding flavour to the fish.
It may be 40 minutes farther away, but I'm sticking with La Veranda Osteria.
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