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| - I had been wanting to go to Canoe for a very long time, and finally got a chance to go for lunch this week. I was very excited to try their Summerlicious menu. My review is based on the three dishes I tried, which are as follows:
Chicken terrine:
A cold pallid rectangular cube of an grayish item was served, which looked like pate to me(I enjoy pate), but as I broke into it, it tasted and looked like processed canned meat, like spam. (Small disappointment)
Pasta with summer legumes:
The nice and professional server brings over a bowl of white pasta, with steamed lima beans and perhaps four snow peas, and that's it !. The pasta perhaps had drops sunflower oil as seasoning. This dish was extremely bland and I cannot fathom how and why this made it to the summerlicious menu. (Biggest disappointment)
Dessert:
The food till this point was so disappointing that I didn't expect much from the dessert. The bad food parade continued with the dessert because my vanilla pudding, which had a fancy name, seemed to have too much vanilla extract in it because it tasted slightly bitter.
The restaurant does have a good view, and very professional service, but the dishes that I tried for Summerlicious 2014 were all utterly bland and thought less. The bison that I my co workers had looked good, but in my opinion if you par take in summerlicious then every dish should be delightful. This experience replaces Canoe as a small wedding reception contender from my books.
I initially gave this place a star, but because of the service and the view, the service, and the complimentary bread and tasty hummus I will bump it up to a two star!
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