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| - I love the small size (intimacy) of the restaurant, the creative flare of the food and the reasonably-priced bottles of wine. However after reading the Yelper reviews, the whole experience just wansn't what I was expecting. Perhaps after so many 5 star little french restaurants, I have been spoiled.
Amuse bouche certainly started off right with a basket of breads and a vegetarian amuse bouche of pumpkin seeds and white beans. The wine was decent, but with so many bottles under $50, it's hard to go wrong.
The appetizers at my table were the poutine with duck confit and the prawn ravioloi with scallops. The poutine frites are tiny like the junk food "potato stix". So, you never really got the taste of the frites with the duck gravy. The ravioli were amazing, but of the two scallops only one was perfectly cooked, the other over-done.
The mains- pork tenderloin and gnocci- were just OK. The gnocci was a bit too soft. I like at least a little bite to it, but this was just falling apart in my fork. We were full enough we opted out of dessert, which comes as a platter of bite-size custards and mousses.
So, while I wanted to love this place, the stars may fall.
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