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| - We had dinner this evening with friends. We were looking forward to it and had read several mixed reviews.
We went with an open mind And decided to try the winterlicious menu.
The restaurant itself was loud but, not packed. It had some nice style features like the front light fixture and the shellacked wood tables with the flash of red. Kinda had a generic look like so many "hip" restaurants in the city.
The Asian Caesar was rather tasty, worth the $16. We hope that with that price there was actually alcohols in it, because it was hard to tell.
The food was mostly good to great but, sadly not amazing. The tuna tar tar that accompanied the black pepper charred salmon, was fantastic. The charred salmon itself, just okay. The provincials artichoke soup was good but rather cold. The servers took a very long time to clear plates and return to ask for round two of drinks. Started to feel annoyed that 4 or more people had already been to our table.
Next up, with a unusually long wait in between first course and second; were the short rib cannelloni gratinee, it was good but probably would not order again. Then the shrimp ravioli with scallops. It had potential however the dish had too many different things going on. With garlicky scallops, some kind of polenta/tofu cake, one stuffed ravioli and Swiss chards The plate looked beautiful, like picture worthy, but the tastes varied with each bite from great to ummm mediocre.
Dessert came on a tray of two. It was good sized portions. The crispy apple purse was tasty. Would have gone very well with coffee had a sever returned to ask. The vanilla panna cotta was terrible, I like sweet and it was just not working in my mouth. The flavour combos did not match and I actually didn't finish it.
The service was terrible. We had 5-7 people at our table during the 2.5 hours. One server who did come to clear our plates stood and rushed my partner to finish there last few bites. Not friendly or organized servers, they tried to explain the dishes but, did so poorly. The services actually took away from what could have been a higher score.
With a few drinks each at $15-16 each and the value of a winterlicious menu it was still an expensive dinner out. You would expect service to be a lot more polished and the timing and food to be more consistence to a great or even fabulous score.
Probably will not return.
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