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1. We were there for the apple season but there was only one dessert served with applies.
2. Service was good, consistent and staff friendly
3. reservations were made in April for the October dinner - sold out in 5 seconds flat so if you are interested in attending this smorgasbord anticipate a 6 month or more wait
4. Wine list was extravagant - one bottle at $40 & 60, then over to $80+
5. Lots of rushing and no chance to settle in between courses
6. we were served a whopping 6 "entrées", 3 main dishes and 5 desserts for our table of 12.
Entrees: First plate was my favourite: cream of tomato soup and cheesy sausage cooked in brioche in a tin can. Flavours blended well and made sense. After that things went downhill fast. Next course was a baked oyster served with something cheesy and a hard lump of foie gras. There was something sugary and odd - waste of a nice oyster and foie gras. Followed by roasted cauliflower with capers and deep fried calves brain - just awful mix of sour and fried soggy sweetbreads. Handmade pasta with pesto, cheese and tofu(!) - another nonsensical blend of over the top. Then there was another pasta dish of one giant black cannelloni made with ricotta (this was well done) - however to slice it up among 6 people just squashed it to death (better to do individual servings in a dish, no?).
By now no one was actually eating much, just dumping it into metal tins to actually eat when they had an appetite. This is not how I like to have a nice dinner.
Main dishes: one roast of pork with an incredible amount of fat still on it, served with carrots. They brought out the roast and did a nice side table preparation. Ate about an ounce, too pink and fatty for me. Next came mackerel served with eggplant and chick peas - I didn't try this dish but made no sense for the menu. Finally a meat loaf of gargantuan proportions: minced pork, wrapped in bacon and a whole brie wheel blended into it served with garlic, brussels sprouts and mushrooms. It was swimming in oil - a mish-mash of flavour and average at best.
Desserts: my second favourite part of the meal and there was nothing left over to take away. One pate amandine with apples and a nice pastry, pear tart with custard, a strawberry pie (teeny tiny for a table of 12), a chocolate tart with blueberries, and two ice cream cakes with meringue walls, topped with honey whip cream. These were fairly well prepared and had a nice blend of flavours.
All this with a $6 glass of cider came to a whopping $70 before taxes.
My suggestion? Skip it and go somewhere else. It was like going to New Orleans: all the fat but without the finesse of the preparations. The menu had no flow to it, many dishes didn't compliment each other and way way way too much food. I tasted most, had a little of each and took NOTHING home.
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