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| - Food's excellent. Favorites are Duck Confit Panini, and Spicy Tuna Melt Panini. The soups are usually good and the coffee--I only order dark roast--is good, although I'd prefer it a bit stronger. The grainy mustard aioli that accompanies the panini is good, but really rich--so dab sparingly. They should be putting the slaw in a bigger tub 'cause it's really good, but almost tauntingly spare.
I have a couple of pet peeves about this place which prevented me from giving it full marks:
- the open kitchen is noisy--mostly from plates being mercilessly banged against each other--in the sink, while plating, stacking...so I usually try to retreat into the inside area with the hanging shades
- speaking of this area... There are a lot of black surfaces--black planks on the display window, black upholstery, black shades, a really funky antique black klieg light at the end--and the thing with black surfaces is that u need to constantly dust and wipe. In the morning light, it's unforgiving. There was almost a half-inch thick coating of dust and lint on the hanging shades on top of our tables I couldn't help thinking some of it was landing on the food. It's called a vacuum, folks. Use it.
- the staff--most of them, not all, to be fair, are not the warm, affable kind we Calgarians are used to. They do the job, albeit, in blasé fashion
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