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| - I started the meal off with a conversation about how lately I've been finding it difficult to be impressed with restaurants in the city. Talk about irony. Bar Isabel really left an impression on us. Everything was perfectly executed, delicious, and showed some originality. We started with some oysters, adobo pork pinxtos, croquetas, smoked sweetbreads on raw tuna, and roasted bone marrow. The croquetas were remarkably cheesy, the sweetbread dish had incredible balance of flavor, the pinxtos were fresh and crunchy, and the bone marrow was decadent. We opted for a 1/4 octopus and the morcilla with foie as our mains. The octopus was tender, flavorful and nicely charred, and the foie was unlike any other I've had in Toronto. Home-run, not to mention the incredible basque cake and 1946 PX we had for dessert.
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