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| - Located right inside Sak's on Queen street. Atmosphere of this restaurant is beautiful. Very modern and artistic. Upon arriving, there are two sets of doors you can enter through. One through Yonge/ Queen Street and one through Sak's inside the Hudson Bay. Host was friendly and brought you to your seat quickly. One interesting fact: Lena actually has 4 floors! Some reviewers had already mentioned it, but the little space you see through the windows of Queen and Yonge is deceiving.
Upon being sat down, my server took quite some time to come. I thought it was because my other guest did not arrive yet, but even after she had arrived it took her almost 15 minutes to come by and take our order. When she did, we opted for the winterlicious menu. The menu itself is quite diverse but the food at best was mediocre.
We started with the cooked veal carpaccio and the ceviche. The carpaccio was overly salted but the veal it self was cooked well. The ceviche was my favourite part of the meal. It had a tangy taste with a sauce that resembles pesto. They also sprinkled a bunch of hickory stick chips ontop to garnish... quite interesting.
For the main, we opted for the mackerel and the spicy tomato egg noodle. Mackerel was cooked pretty good but it was small. It was also on top of a bed of tomato/red peppers... once again. quite salty. The spicy tomato egg noodle seemed like it was just spaghetti and tomato sauce with a little bit of calabrese. Once again, OVERLY salty.. but the noodles were cooked well.
For dessert, we had their cheese plate (one hard and one soft cheese with some apricoat and mini baguettes), and also had their candied orange and almond cake. The cake itself was quite tasty and the cheese were generous.. could not finish it.
Overall though, the service is what knocked all the stars down... after every course we waited 20 - 25 minutes for the next course. This is ridiculous, especially since they are catering to the financial district employees... The server we had was also very slow and didn't pay much attention to her area (we noticed other tables were also annoyed at the slow service and incompetency of the server). It's sad that a O&B restaurant has this kind of reputation. One fun fact though, we saw one of the Masterchef Canada judges Michael Bonacini at the restaurant.. seems like he was fixing some visual of the restaurant rather than cooking at the restaurant.
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