My friend and I went for a Calgary Big Taste dinner at Q and were underwhelmed. The interior, while nice for the most part, had a tacky try too hard feel, which immediately had us wondering if we were going to be disappointed with our food.
The first course lacked texture and was a slightly mushy plate of pickled assortments but the second course was great. They brought out a mushroom risotto with Parmesan crisp that was creamy, balanced and left us wanting more.
Overall, the food was good but not worth paying what it normally would have cost (minus the risotto). The staff were friendly but incredibly slow. The restaurant was trying to serve everyone the same courses at the same and as we had an early reservation there was an incredibly long wait between some of our courses. I'm not sure we would return again.