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| - I came to get a take-out lunch and ordered soup and the Italia salad. The soup was a just passable purée of hard to define vegetables, and the flavor was mainly of cream and salt, although a hint of garlic was detectable. The salad. Oh dear. Well, I ordered it to go, and it was put in a liter soup container, so that the pieces of prosciutto, Parmesan cheese, and capers were on top, and the lettuce below. I had to wait quite a while, even though they were only moderately busy. As I was leaving the cook ran after me and gave me the dressing she had forgotten to put in the bag with my salad, so points for remembering and running after me, but demerits for having forgotten in the first place. When I got back to the office and peeled back the lid on my little salad treasure capsule, I spread the contents out on a plate. The prosciutto clung together in a prosciutto meat ball, and there were a few sprouts that had nothing to do with anything Italian, and then there were about five capers (anyone who knows me knows I am a huge caper fan, so demerits on the lack of capers too!;). On top of everything was some crumbled parmesan cheese. I tried the prodigal dressing, and it was awful. The trinity for this place seems to be cream, garlic, and salt, which is basically what the dressing was, and again, it had very little to do with Italian flavors, except for the garlic of course. If you're going to call a salad Italia, then a smattering of prosciutto, capers, and parmesan on lettuce is a poor attempt. At least add some grilled eggplant, zucchini, artichoke, pickled mushrooms to the aforementioned, and serve it with a nice olive oil vinaigrette. The cardinal sin for me though, was the fact that they hadn't even bothered to sort the bad lettuce from the good, and I wonder whether or not they didn't just reach in a bag of big bulk store restaurant lettuce, without washing it or looking at it to see if it was rotten before packing it up for me. I found about ten to fifteen pieces of edible lettuce, while the rest was wilted, rotting, brown, or just yuck. I have no idea why restaurants that charge $10 or more for a meal salad, don't ensure that the main component of that salad is not perfect, and moreover why people often let them get away with it - this isn't the first baby romaine disaster I've had in Montreal unfortunately. The bulk of my only giving two stars to this place lies with the lack of attention to detail that allowed me to receive a basically inedible $10 salad, and with the lack of imagination and poor execution in the dishes themselves. Maybe they make great stuff otherwise, and I just caught them in a bad moment, but there are too many other good places in the Old Port for me to give this one another chance. Sorry so negative! Happy thoughts from now on. Ommmm.
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