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| - I found the food and ambience 5*. The service, I have mixed feelings. I should preface this by saying that my partner doesn't drink alcohol, I drink a glass of wine on the odd occasion out for dinner. Patria's servers should be made aware that there ARE people who want to go out for a nice dinner in the King west area but not drink. Interestingly, we had the same experience at Weslodge. Almost dismissed when declining alcohol. I am also Celiac so no gluten at our table either. :)
Service
Hostess was friendly and welcoming. The two servers we had spiked my opinion of the service way down. The people running the food to the table were friendly as was the manager who thanked us on his way by. The first person we spoke to told us the "migas" were not gluten free when I asked for some direction on the menu to meet my dietary restrictions. Then left us for our own server. The second one..insincere, dismissive and snooty over a table not wanting an expensive cocktail or bottle of wine (I did order a 3 oz glass). She insisted that the afore mentioned "migas" were gluten free (by that point I had googled them and determined it was highly unlikely.) We ordered our beverages (my wine and carafe if sparkling water). She was back almost immediately with the beverages, dropped them on the table, turned on her heel and left. We then waited awhile for her return to take our order. We ordered 5 plates, knowing they were small but also knowing our appetites with rich food.( Origin always leaves a menu for the option to order more if needed). She was very aggressive in insisting we should order more then seemed annoyed when we said we'd order more if we were still hungry. The food was paced nicely, no complaints there. We ordered dessert and coffee. My cappuccino arrived with a cookie that I promptly removed from the plate and gave my partner. Our oh so very charming server witnessed this, giggled and said "oops". Because it had been on my spoon I then didn't use the spoon. My opinion of her did not improve when she dropped the wrong bill off and disappeared again at which point we had to flag down another person to get it fixed.
Food
I would love to use the Spanish names but I can't remember them :) so...
The garlic basil prawns were large, flavourful and perfectly cooked.
The selection of cured meat. Very tasty but I agree with another poster's opinion. Too thin and meagre for price.
Manchego, pepper stuffed dates wrapped in bacon. They were delicious but could be executed a little better. These have the potential to have the perfect blend of salty, sweet, hot and sharpness from the cheese. We felt the manchego was a wee bit over powered.
Peppers stuffed with oxtail and covered with finely grated manchego were perfection.
Chocolate pudding with a blown sugar candy filled with high quality olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt. The combination of the rich chocolate pudding with the grassy rich olive oil and salt. WOWOWOW. Highlight of evening.
I'm giving 4 stars because of the poor service resulting from our server with caveat that everyone/everything else was 5*.
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