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| - I was very curious to try the new Obika Mozzarella Bar at BCE place. I like mozzarella so I thought it would be a fun experience. Well when my friend and I got there, the waitress informed us that they don't have a liquor license yet. That was disappointing because we were looking forward to having a glass of wine after work. But we decided to stay anyway and share an appetizer and then go across to Marche for dinner and a drink. The waiter explained how the menu works and my friend and I decided to share a mozzarella platter which included 3 different kinds of mozzarella and we also ordered roasted vegetables and asked for some bread. The bread arrived salty and stale. It had olives in it and because of that it was way too salty, but I figured that since mozzarella is usually pretty tasteless it would be fine. The mozzarella platter arrived and it looked good. The portion was big! Actually too big for 2 people. It hard to eat so much cheese! The disappointing factor was that I found both smoked and regular mozzarella balls to be salty too! I was very surprised since if you buy real mozzarella in grocery stores, they are not salty at all! The last one (a creamy mozzarella) was nice, but because the bread was so stale, I had to put a lot of it on a little piece of bread. Grilled veggies were fine. We didn't try anything else as we were pretty full from eating all that cheese. The best part of this dining experience was the dessert. I wanted something sweet to mask all the salty flavours of the dinner, so my friend and I decided to split a flourless dark chocolate almond cake which came with vanilla gelato. The cake was really, really good! The service was good, and they wanted to make sure we were having a good time and the food was good. However, when my friend and I was about to order the dessert, our waiter brought our bill to us saying that he had to go because his shift was over (meaning so we would hurry up and order the dessert if we wanted to). We ordered and he took our bill away and then brought it again with the dessert saying that he really needed to go!!! Why couldn't they just replace him with another waiter and not make us hurry? My friend and I still took our time to finish the dessert. However, I noticed he was doing that all throughout our meal. He would come back every 5 min asking if we were finished with our mozzarella. Strange! I would probably not come back there again, although the atmosphere was good and the staff was friendly, but the food was disappointing, except for the chocolate cake.
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