I came here for Summerlicious 2015 to celebrate my father's birthday and had a great experience. While I have been to Canoe before (Winterlicious 2014), my family has never been nor do they frequent fancier dining scenes as Canoe.
As always the view was lovely, our table had a view of the lake at sunset and the highway at night which was a plus.
Overall, I enjoyed their Summerlicious menu a lot more than their recent Winterlicious one. As an appetizer the stand-out was the buffala mozarella with crab, though the portion was small it was packed full of summer flavour! The chicken terrine was meh, not great and their spinash salad with goat cheese and walnuts was nice but not memorable.
Our party of four ensured that I got to sample all the entrees and hands down the salmon was the star! Tender and perfectly cooked paired with a creamy polenta was delicious. My father would contend that their beef strip loin dish was the best, he says the potato fry they had on was so good that he didn't even tell us so that he didn't have to share...overall all of us enjoyed the entrees.
Dessert - wise I had the summer berry streusal tart that was great as well. It had great texture that changed as the cream topping soaked into the granola and the tart. It was refreshing and a sweet-tart ending to the dinner. My brother had the chocolate ganache which was just pure chocolate that I found too sweet but he liked it - chocolate lovers convene on this dessert.
Overall, the selling point and reason that I will look forward to returning, is always going to be the service. Canoe never fails to impress in terms of service. Our server was attentive and charismatic and even brought out an extra birthday dessert for our little shindig. My family and I left feeling very pleased with the experience!