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| - Fern, Or Not ..Had very high hopes for this restaurant. I read all the Chef reviews in the paper , Must not be the same Chef now. So we were a party of five , we ordered three appetizer Cauliflower Poutine, The Baked Gratin with Oatmeal Crumble and Tofu. Out of the three the Cauliflower Poutine was fairly good. Little tater totsmade out of Cauliflower and fake Cheese Curds...Not too bad. The Baked Gratin was not cooked correctly, the Butternut Squash was cooked but the turnip squash was hard, the crumble topping was not crispy... very odd. The Tofu was fine. Then I ordered the 200 year old Sourdough Flatbread-which is not flat and not bread..it is hard tack. It was described as having Scallop like Turnips and a Non-dairy bechamel sauce on it. Number they did not cut the Turnips to look like scallops and the bechamel sauce was lacking any flavor at all. Not any garnishes to make it a tasty flatbread lunch. Everything required more seasoning and flavor development, Nothing was even salted. My sister had the Buddha Bowl which had Black Forbidden Rice (undercooked) and large cubes of overcooked and undercooked vegetables. No seasoning again, and no beans as it was described to have them. Two of the others had the Warm Kale Salad, it was passable but not great. My son ordered the OM burger it was missing flavor he said, like ordering a burger without the burger !! We ordered Bloody Marys that had house made mix. It was nothing but watered down tomato juice with JUST horseradish. Not one garnish, or piece of lemon or a pickle or not a speck of pepper. Blah!!! and 7.00 dollars!!
All in all the place looks nice but should be a store and not a restaurant! I am so surprised at this Chefs craft. He needs to go back to the CIA and learn how to season and cook vegetables ---especially if this is his "Vegetarian" Restaurant.. I will say I will not be going back at all.....
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