Food - 1/5
Service - 2/5
Atmosphere - 3/5
Price - 2/5
Here for Late Dinner & glass of beer - Bill was $23.77 (CA$) w/ tip
Got to the hotel about 10pm and was feeling the need for some grub. The hotel restaurant offeres crew a generous discount and although I usually know better to eat hotel food....
I remember being here about 3 yrs ago and it being pretty darn good for a hotel restaurant. The 3 of us (total crew) phillied up to the bar for quicker service. The kitchen is open till 11pm - which is great when your coming in late.
I ordered a Rickard's Red and I spied the baked macaroni with chorizo and Quebec cheddar. The bar service was a little slow but the food came out pretty quick for 10:45'ish at night.
The presentation left me pretty excited, especially for being so late at night, and I was hungry. (see pics)
I dived into the heaping mound of cheese melted macaroni and slurped into a never ending string of cheddar. I was awestruck with how such a wonderful looking plate could be completely devoid of any flavor what so ever.
I salted and peppered the daylights out of that dish just to get any flavor. There was something bigger though - no amounted of flavor magnification was going to undue the elbowed shaped extruded semolina from being mush!
The chorizo was pretty decent but too few pieces were available for sampling. The Béchamel sauce was weak and flavorless. It did add some of the obligatory creaminess to the over all dish and the overdone proteins in the wheat of the pasta added the rest.
The dinner was accompanied with small ciabatta rolls and butter. OMG!!! the butter here is DIVINE yes I said it in all caps - that roll with butter was better than my dinner.
I saw the guy next to me had ordered the French Onion Soup - damnit I thought. That looks great.
I'm back here tomorrow night and I know what I'm ordering all ready.