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| - Came here for a Friday night dinner. We originally wanted to go to Joey's but the wait was 45 minutes long so ended up coming to Glow instead. Interestingly, when we arrived at Glow, there wasn't a line up and in fact, there were quite a number of empty tables....perhaps a telling sign of what was to come?
The waiter (who was exceptional) brought us 3 types of hummus (a carrot, beet and butternut squash) and some bread to start. The bread seemed stale and was slightly toasted so as to perhaps hide the staleness? Either way, the hummus was good....we particularly enjoyed the beet and butternut squash one but the bread could be much better.
We ordered the grilled squid to share which came with 2 large pieces of squid. The squid was....well, flavourless. We felt like a lot of olive oil (at least we hope it was olive oil) was doused on top which made it quite oily and I didn't think that there was enough of a "grilled" flavour to the squid.
I ordered the Wagyu beef burger which came with bbq chips and a ceasar salad. First, I felt the burger was overdone and very dry. It had an interesting flavour to it....not unpleasant per se, but I could have done without that spice (whatever it was) so that I could at least taste the beef. The bbq chips were quite intricate actually and our waiter told us that it was baked in the stone oven. Strangely, the chips seemed to be kind of oily (?) and there was no bbq flavour to them. The ceasar salad was nothing crazy but was pretty good.
My fiance ordered the salmon overtop a spinach salad. The salmon was overcooked which was highly disappointing. The spinach salad was again nothing to rave home about.
Again, our server was fantastic and really raved about the food (which I suppose is his job).
Overall, we spent a little over $80 dollars for less than mediocre food. Definitely not worth the money. Glow was disappointing and overpriced and to be honest, I'd only come back here if friends suggested it AND if it was before 6pm to get in on the $15 3 course fixed price menu.
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