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| - ave been here a number of times, and the food is consistantly excellent. Today my wife had the scrambled eggs with smoked trout. The scrambled eggs were fortified with cream, creme freche and egg yolk in order to create a smooth, creamy and delicious consistancy laced with chives and salted perfectly. Served over a nice artisinal bread perfectly crisped, made it a very delightful dish. THe smoked trout was the best I had ever had. Perfectly smoked, and not too salty. The chef does that himself, and I have had his salmon at other times. 5 out of 5.
My daughter had a small fried egg with bacon. Sounds simple, but the bacon was extremely smoky and delicious. One of the best bacons I have tasted.
I had deviled kidneys. The sauce of sherry, cider, cream and shallots was a perfect compliment, the watercress was great and added freshness to the dish. The bread soaked up the delicious sauce nicely.
Coffee-good quality coffee from 49th parallel in Vancouver. High acidity and nuanced-though I am not a real coffee drinker. Tea-very good quality longjing (dragon well tea) but some real preparation problems; about 1/2 gram for 300ML of water and the infuser was of the stiff metal type which doesn't let the water flow so nicely. I think for that amount of water, you should use about 10 grams of tea. Better still use a small pot with only 120ML and use about 4 grams of tea. Do about 3 infusions. But at least they tried by using a high quality loose leaf tea. Points for trying, but deductions for not listening when I said "not enough tea" and they said "try it you'll like it-we can add more tea later".
The owner's wife is one of the servers, and all of the servers are attentive and knowlegeable (more or less). One of hte servers who seated us, knew how the food was made which was fun. In the past, the wine buyer has steered me to very nice reasonably priced wines. Good foods in the evening too-gastropub style.
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