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| - I have been wanting to go to this restaurant for a long time and I was really excited to try this restaurant but left very disappointed. I went on Sunday at 8:15pm, a bit late for our 8pm reservation. Upon looking at the menu I immediately felt let down that so many of the dishes that I saw on their website were not available, it was almost a completely different menu. The menu is meant for sharing so the two of us ordered six dishes from their snacks section and skipped the mains since they didn't really appeal to us. (They didn't have the octopus on the menu.)
All six dishes came at once and flooded our table. I thought this was odd since some dishes were bound to get cold. I've been to other restaurants before where they preface that dishes will arrive as they are ready and in no particular order but usually it's not literally all at once. Also, the server never described the dishes, they were kind of just placed there. I thought maybe all the dishes came at once because it was meant for sharing family style but then at 9pm, our server told us the kitchens will be closing soon and asked if we wanted anything else like dessert. We were hardly through our dishes and it made us feel really rushed. They did state they could still do dessert if we decided later though, but all the pacing was just so odd and uncomfortable.
The food itself was a bit disappointing as well. We got the grilled squid and it was a bit chewy and overcooked. We had a sliced trout with blood orange sauce where the sauce just tasted like blood orange juice with olive oil and was quite bland despite the vibrant look of the dish. Ceviche is one of my favourite dishes and their ceviche was fairly good when eaten with the sweet potato but overall a little too acidic. My boyfriend really liked the potatoes with huacaina sauce and said it tasted like the ones he had in Peru. Personally, I thought it was a bit boring and the cheese sauce reminded me a bit of processed cheese (but admittedly, this is probably a personal taste issue). We also got a beef empanada and that actually was really yummy and had a great chimichurri sauce, probably our favourite item of the night.
When they initially asked how we liked the food, I hadn't tasted any of it yet and said everything looked good. I wish I had said something later about how the squid was overcooked but I had already felt rushed so I chickened out. Also, I didn't know how to express it wasn't just one dish we didn't like. Plus we were actually really hungry when we got there so we did eat all the food so it would have been weird to say something after the fact.
All our seafood apps were around $20 and I felt like the food was a bit overpriced for the quality. The quantity of the trout was actually really small too, maybe like 4 slices thinner than sashimi. The potatoes were $12, and it was four slices of boiled potatoes.
I got a cocktail as well and that was pretty good. We were going to skip on dessert since we weren't that into the food and by 9:30pm we were the only people left in the restaurant. Our waitress found out it was our anniversary so she gave us a complimentary chocolate mousse after we had paid which I thought was very nice of her. Unfortunately the mousse was not that good either, the consistency was more like a whipped ganache and kind of gummy and tasted a bit salty to me. Not light and airy at all.
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