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| - This place is amazing! You should definitely get reservations if you go, as it can be quite packed, even on a Wednesday, which is when we went. My wife and I went there to celebrate her birthday. I told the server that it was her birthday and that we had just tied the knot awhile ago. She treated us like royalty! This level of service is what I am accustomed to in American restaurants, but never expect in a Canadian one. I'll start with the drinks. We had a delicious sparkling wine, but the brand of it escapes me. All I can say is try the sparkling wine. By the sounds of this review I drank too much, but I didn't, hotnesss. Oh but I could have! The cocktails are out of this world! My wife had a drink called "The Fields are Burning." Why the fire reference? Because it was filled with cherry smoke! While I can't remember everything that was in it, the cherry smoke was the most memorable. The bartender smokes the glass and then pours the ingredients in, so the delicious smoke permeates everything! If only I had discovered this place in my university days when I had some semblance of a tolerance! I had, I think it was "Goodbye to Horses." It was a very smooth layered wine bourbon cocktail. It was almost as sad to say goodbye to my drink as it would be to say goodbye to horses. Both of these drinks are award winning for unsurprising reasons.
We ordered appetizers while we were having our drinks. I think they are closely guarding a secret: they have perfected replicator technology. I believe this is so because of just how fast the food came out! My wife had a melon consume. it was rich, deep and complex. I had a pasta dish with pesto and felt the same. Pasta, even great pasta, is often one dimensional. This pasta, however, was the most real pasta I have ever had. It contained at least four dimensions and up to twenty-six.
I had the sirloin cap, a slightly tougher cut of meat than sirloin, but a more flavourful one. However, it was cut and cooked so well that it just tasted like a wonderfully flavoured sirloin! It was accompanied by parsley gnocchi with a creamy centre. It was truly a thing of beauty. My wife had drunken cheese and donuts. This was delicious and unusual. She said it landed well and evolved. The desserts were rich and delicious! They had a roti with basil sugar, something that truly must be treated to gain a sense of, a present butter and jelly tart which was fruity and chocolaty, and a really yummy cheesecake. I can't recommend this place highly enough. Make sure you come hungry with a reservation, and be open to experiment.
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