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I was disappointed when we were given a Groupon only menu. If the voucher originally states that there will be a limited menu, I have no issue and understand completely why a restaurant would do that. However this came as a surprise. I had already checked out the regular menu online and narrowed down to a couple choices - neither of them were on the limited menu.
The hostess (not hearing impaired) explained how the restaurant works and demonstrated a couple phrases in sign.
On each table is a flip chart of various terms and how to sign them, as well as a cheat sheet with words you can point to - e.g. "no" "extra" "on the side" along with various condiments. We didn't get to communicate too much in sign with our server, mostly I think because we felt nervous we wouldn't do it right but we did say a couple standard things like "thank you" "it was good" etc.
We saw 2 waitresses and the hostess interact using sign, which was interesting.
For apps, we got the Caesar salad and ginger carrot soup. No complaints, both were exactly how you'd expect them to be.
For the mains, we got the seafood gnocchi and vegetable pasta. The tomato sauce used in both was really flavourful and tasty. I expected the vegetable pasta to be regular linguine with vegetables thrown in. Instead, the "pasta" itself was spiraled carrots. Not being a huge fan of carrots, this was well made I guess but tasted too healthy for me. Menu should have clarified it wasn't real pasta.
For dessert, we both had the chocolate cake which was rich, without too much ganache.
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