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| - Prices are high for the quantity of higher-end ingredients actually given. My large lobster poutine contained only one claw's worth of meat, cut into small chunks. The lobster grilled cheese was a bit of cheese, mostly "filler" type of stuff like diced veggies, and an indiscernible amount of lobster. Upon first opening, the crispy rock shrimp roll formerly served on a black bun actually contained a decent amount of rock shrimp, but it somehow just lacked that unctuousness that I had expected with a description like "chili-glazed". The black bun, if you're curious about, was nothing major to report either. The charcoal actually felt a little gritty in the mouth, no great difference in the bread texture, and tasted like any regular plain bread. Not the awesome bakery kind, just a run-of-the-mill type from a grocery store that comes in a bag.
The broccoli was bland and a bit overcooked, with that telltale "dead" broccoli colour that verges on the yellow side rather than the deep, bright green you'd expect. Glad that they're no longer charging for the side sauces though, which they used to sell for a pricey $3 per small plastic sauce container, but I'm not sure that their fancy sauce still contains uni? Tastes more like a mix of mayonnaise and something unidentifiable now (like a less tangy version of Thousand Island dressing). The seaweed salad is a mostly regular greens, with some of the wet seaweed squares you'd typically in powder-mix miso soup.
I really wanted to like Little Fin, but each time it's just somehow been a bit disappointing. I think it's mainly because for their prices, I expect a POW! of flavour but am met more with a low-five. A low-five made by baby hands. I've often been tempted to try their take-out whole lobster dinners with drawn butter, but considering lobsters are pretty darn cheap nowadays and are so simple to make at home, it's difficult to shell out ~$42 (I do love my puns) when I know I can buy one from T&T for $18. After at least 4 separate visits, I'm sad to say that I probably will be stopping at this...
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