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| - My wife and I went to Daish? for their $45 Summerlicious prix fixe menu. While we were reasonably content with the meal overall, the food did not live up to the reputation or the price point.
Our first point of contact was a good one with our reception. Our server was friendly, present and approachable. Some of the service staff milling about our table were dressed in tshirts and jeans I would consider more appropriate for a place in the Annex, but this wasn't a deal breaker for us.
Our meal started off with an amuse bouche of potato salad with dill and a milk potato foam. It was tasty, but we were ready for real food.
For the first real course, I had a Philly Bun (their take on a philly cheese steak) and my wife had a radish salad. Both were satisfying in their contents, but the bun was tiny. I was being sort of dainty with it, but I could have easily polished it off in two bites if I was plowing through it. If I could have, I would have eaten a dozen of those for dinner and been quite happy. My wife had the radish salad and said it was quite tasty.
My main course was the chicken dish, which consisted of a braised chicken rolled around a sausage with peaches and heirloom tomatoes. The dish was nice in concept, but it was on the edge of being over salted. If it were any saltier, I would have likely sent it back. The portions were not huge, with two pieces of chicken approximately 2 inches across and 1 inch thick. The flavours worked decently well together, but it was hard to get past the salt. I couldn't tell if it was from the sausage meat or the braising liquid it was in (which may have over salted as it reduced).
My wife had the trout, which appeared to be cooked nicely and had a slaw with banana peppers in it with watermelon. Again, the portion sizes weren't huge, but she seemed to enjoy her entree well enough.
This was followed by a pre-dessert which consisted of a sugar-cube sized block of blueberry jelly with a small dollop of goat yoghurt. To me, it tasted a lot like one of those fruit-on-the-bottom yoghurt cups.
Our desserts were the cornbread with popcorn and butterscotch panna cotta for me and the ice cream sandwich for my wife. She found it frozen to the point where it was difficult to cut through. The cornbread was pretty good, as I tend to like savoury desserts more than sweet ones.
Our overall impressions were that the meal was a bit pricey for what we had received. If this meal was at $35 and they had omitted the amuse bouche and the pre-dessert courses, we would have been pretty content with it all. I gave three stars because of the smaller portion sizes as well as the saltiness of my chicken dish (I couldn't overlook it, unfortunately).
We'd be willing to give Daisho another shot, but not before we checked out the other Momofuku offerings. I was very excited to hear that it was in Toronto when it arrived some time ago, but I have to wonder if my excitement was somewhat overblown after my first experience there.
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