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| - Not a fan of the new overhauled menu, thus the loss of a star, sorry.
I was shocked when I came in an noticed several, (at least 10) of their regular menu items were removed, ie the kitsalano sandwich, sesame ginger noodle bowl which was one of my favourites, was no where to be seen, in fact there are no soft noodle dishes on the menu. Also, my favourite app, the bruschetta with warm loaf is gone :( its been replaced with an inferior bruschetta on crisps...boooooo
With that we tried the new head chef, Alex Chen's, signature, rigatoni. It was good, it was pasta, it was just meh, nothing I would make a trip out for... and I found it really salty. My husband had the thai coconut barramundi. I personally found it underwhelming, it tasted really light but I did not like the relish, found it really didn't help the delicate fish. The shrimps in that dish also tasted steamed, no WOW, no seasoning, nothing to help the shrimp.
Even their seasonal menu didn't bring back one of my favourites, the marsala chicken with seasonal root veg. I was at least hoping to have that, but nope...I noticed A LOT of items which incorporated ham, or bacon on the new holiday menu, I don't eat pork so I can't say I would be excited to try them. Two tarts, a couple of regular menu items, the rigatoni I mentioned earlier and no chicken on the features, what is going on?! Isn't a holiday or feature menu supposed to have new and exciting items that would make you want to try them? And why would you have two regular menu items on the feature menu? It doesn't make sense to me!
That said, the pecan macadamia nut tart sounds good, keep up that caliber of innovation and you might win me back.
Kudos for trying something new, now please with sugar on top, lets go back to how things once were...Good effort Alex Chen but sorry, this new menu doesn't quite make the cut for me...will probably stick to your lunch steak sandwich (and nut tart) if I did end up going again.
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