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| - Argh, what a disappointment. Having read through the list of raving reviews and listening to the concierge's recommendations, I thought that this would be the killer place to spend our last evening in Montreal. Instead, it killed the good vibe!
Ok, so we sat down ok and had a nice introduction to the restaurant. Staff was pleasant enough. A bit disengaged but not to a degree that was unbearable. I started with a lovely butternut squash bisque. That was quite good. The wife had a mesculun salad that had a grotesque, sloppy presentation (a large bunch of leaves bound together in a completely inconvenient mass too difficult to truly address) ... That had to be sent back. She had a mushroom risotto that was quite nice. I had a veal dish that was forgettable, to be honest. She had a 'Pinot noir' that was, at best, a top choice at Olive Garden. I had a cab that, without exaggeration, smelled like hard boiled eggs. To top if off, something caught fire in the kitchen, so service came to a stan still for the entire place. The entire restaurant had a haze to it. No apologies from management for the smell or for the fact that dinner took two hours.
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