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Walk down an alleyway and then step inside an industrial space-high ceiling brick walled room, an open bar area, and a awe-inspiring chandelier as a hanging centerpiece. The menu changes daily, and stamped with the current date. Even the cocktails are seasonally inspired.
We are seated in the dining room with the lower ceilings-more enclosed, more initimate, and the atmosphere was bustling. Cocktails-I started off with a Autunno a Belluno: whiskey, house made fig preserve, and cinnamon. A sweet drink, with bursts of fig flavour. It was so good I wanted to order three more of these.
It took us a while to look through the menu since everything looked good, and we just couldn't decide. After long moments of contemplation, we finally made our decisions.
For a starter, we got a parmiagiana di melanzane: preserved tomato and fried eggplant layered with bufala ricotta and burrata cheese. This was a marriage of ingredients that went perfectly together. The textures of the fried eggplant and the burrata cheese mingled together just right.
For pastas, we got the:
Bigoli: hand cranked duck egg pastas with duck ragu, mascarpone, and basil. So flavorful, and the pasta was truly divine. Just the right chewiness, with the smoky flavours of the duck and the mascarpone heightening the flavour of the dish. The addition of basil complemented it perfectly.
Tortelli: goose, foie gras and porcini mushroom filled pasta with Ottawa valley sweet butter, toasted hazelnuts, crisp rosemary and melot 'vincotto'. This was my favourite. Probably one of the most amazing things I have ever tasted in my life. Each tortelli was wrapped with so much flavour, and the sweet butter sauce drenched over it with the crispness of the hazelnuts and the rosemary....I am salivating as I write this.
As the finale: the dessert.
Tortellini di mela cotogna: roasted quince stuffed pasta with burrata dolce,honey, hazelnut croccante and chianti vincotto. Another memorable dish. A perfect harmony of the sweetness makes this the perfect ending to an already perfect meal.
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