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| - Came here last night with reservations. We ordered Arctic Snow Crab Salad on Toasted Brioche ($16), Carrot and Ginger Stuffed Sourdough Agnolotti ($26), and the Rainbow Trout ($26), and two beers.
We give 4/5 for food. It's definitely good, and the flavours are there, but fall short on some minor technicalities. The rabbit didn't fit so well with my pasta, as a few giant rabbit chunks were just awkwardly tossed in that you can't really eat while you eat the pasta, or maybe my mouth just isn't big enough. There was also a random cube of dried up cheese on the side of the plate that I really don't think was supposed to be there. But again, all very minor issues.
I can't speak for wine, but the beer selection is decent, featuring a few beers you probably haven't tried. It has two particularly good beers: the Trappistes Rochefort 8 ($10, Belgium) and Dieu du Ciel's Péché Mortel ($12, Québec). The other options were meh, perhaps with the exception of the two $40 beers from Trou du Diable. On the menu they incorrectly classify the Rochefort 8 as a Quad; the Rochefort 10 is Quad, yet the 8 is a Belgian Strong Dark Ale.
We give 1/5 for service. They weren't rude per se, but all of them were quite cold and said very few words, something you'd expect at a low-end sushi joint. We had three different servers: one who took our order, one who brought us food, and one who processed our payment, and they all had the same unwelcoming attitude. There was no introduction to the restaurant or the menu and little knowledge about it was displayed by our first waiter. We also found it pretty odd and frankly unprofessional that the waitstaff would take turns going to the corner to use their phone. When it was time to pay, we had the credit card with the bill and a brand new waiter showed up with no words, took the credit card and started punching in digits into the machine. We just found these people incredibly weird.
Overall: we enjoyed the food but the service was a huge let down.
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