I've been wanting to try this restaurant for a long time, since my friends have all said it was a good restaurant. We came here last night for Winterlicious. We were seated right away in a nice spot. A server came by to pour two of our waters and left. She didn't come back until our third guest arrived. After he had his water poured, we didn't see the server come to our table for about 15 minutes. It was fine - we were all in deep conversation but just a little surprised that you wouldn't follow up for that long. I would at least check in to see if the table was ready etc. Didn't get that.
When she came back we asked her what she recommended for the appetizer. She seemed kind of confused and asked us what we wanted to know. Thought that was funny, we obviously want her recommendation on what's good. Anyways she said she liked the hamachi poke or the pork bao. Our group ordered both. Friend had the bao - pork was a little dry but the flavour was there. The hamachi poke - had a lot of sesame oil. It was good but the tuna just wasn't there for me. Not overly impressed.
Our main dish, friend ordered the snapper - he said was it was good. My other friend and I ordered the fried chicken and ribs. I thought this dish was nice looking and very full. The fries and chipotle mayo were delicious but I wasn't overly impressed with the ribs and fried chicken itself. I thought the fried chicken lacked flavour surprisingly hence why I gave this restaurant 3/5.
The desserts were great. We each tried the carrot cake, dulce de leche ice cream with caramel corn and apple crisp. The apple crisp was our favourite. It was nice and crisp and the vanilla ice cream paired well with it. Can't go wrong with vanilla ice cream and apple pie :)
I'd like to give this restaurant another try since it seems like the average rating is pretty good but I'm not sure I will based on this experience. The ambiance is really nice which wants to pull me back. Maybe it was a one off because of Winterlicious, but I expected more.