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| - Lunch date #2 for Big Taste Calgary!
We arrived to Home Tasting Room at noon for our reservation, and were seated just across from the cooking area/kitchen. I glanced around and could see people enjoying the different dishes offered from their Big Taste menu so I was excited.
I already had my mind made before we came - salad and gnocchi please! (And my girlfriend had the same) The artisan salad came with egg, gruyere cheese, berkshire bacon and was drizzled with a dijon vinagrette. All the flavors worked really well together. It was a perfect size too, just enough to sedate my hunger until our meal came.
Our gnocchi arrived just as we finished our salads - (ricotta and chives) with rainbow swiss chards and portabella mushrooms. At first, I was like "Why is the portion so small?" but as I started to eat, I realized that gnocchi gets filling - FAST! The swiss chards gave the dish a nice crunch and the mushrooms were sauteed perfectly.
Dessert was house baked cookies (peanut butter, coconut and chocolate) accompanied with hot chocolate. Omg, each cookie was so good - both the chocolate and peanut butter somehow were creamy tasting and the coconut had coconut flakes in that burst with flavor! The hot chocolate was more like melted chocolate - rich and really coated your mouth when you sipped it. I guess I was thinking it would be like a regular hot chocolate you would make at home.
Service, food, ambiance was really great here. The only thing that kind of irked me was when the bill came and it said something along the lines of "If you enjoyed your service, customary gratuity is 18%" . . . I don't like being told how much I should tip, it seems kinda rude.
I liked that the entree we had is on their regular menu, and since my sister couldn't join us for Big Taste, I can bring her with me next time so she can try the gnocchi too
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