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| - This a a lovely restaurant is old St. Henri in what is quickly becoming a hotbed area for restaurants. Was here for dinner with another couple to try it out and have a nice evening. We sat on the patio, perfect July night. The person who greeted us was super nice and found us a place to sit even when I mixed up the reservation. The service was good, but not what I would call great.
We started with apps - octopus, heirloom tomato salad and a charcuterie plate - I have to say the apps might have been the stars of the meals - 5 star flavour for all of them.
Then I had the quail, with morels and lima beans. Lima beans will never interest me, the morels were not as flavourful as I had hope - but the quail was perfect. 2 of our party had the duck - very good, and one had the sweetbreads, which were reportedly very good, but the serving was quite small. Paired with a pinot noir from Alsace - surprisingly good...
3 of us chose the chocolate dessert, unfortunately I was not impressed. There was ice-cream and large chocolate curls in white and milk chocolate - which I wouldn't like at the best of times - but serving chocolate cold defeats the purpose of chocolate imo. There was an interesting version of an aero bar, again cold, not my fav. One person had the cheese plate and was impressed by the selection of quebec cheeses. yum!
So, yes the food was good, very good in some instances, not so great in others. I took a star off because I felt like the food was really overpriced, 1/2 star off for mediocre service, and 1/2 star off for the bland puree de petit pois that was on all the plates.
To sum it up, it was a nice place to eat, and perhaps on par with some of the other local hotspots wrt food quality etc, but I think it was overpriced.
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