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| - Went to Canoe for Winterlicious this year, and the food ranged from average to great.
1) Bread and chickpea and garlic puree - your standard restaurant bread, nothing to write home about, chickpea and garlic puree was like a light hummus, nice texture with a smooth consistency but lacked flavor.
2) Roasted Squash & Parsnip Soup - great, nice texture and flavor, not grainy
3) Duo of Ontario Beef- not good, beef was dry and a bit over cooked, flavors weren't super duper, I saw that there was bone marrow jus for this dish and was pretty excited but tasting it was underwhelming, I tasted zero richness that I would associate with bone marrow, worst dish of the night.
4) Roasted Rock Cornish Hen - tried a bit of my friend's dish and this dish was EXCELLENT, great flavor and perfectly cooked, everyone in the table (n=4) loves it, so mad I got the duo of ontario beef
5) Olive Oil Poached Heritage Salmon - nicely cooked fish, but nothing to write home about, lacks a bit of flavor.
6) Spiced Chocolate Panna Cotta - very nice, great texture, and not too sweet
7) Almond Cake - the cake was a bit dry but the accompanying caramel ice cream was A+++, lovely flavor and the ice cream has nice little crunchy bits in it.
Food was kinda slow to come out but service was polite and non intrusive.
Overall, it was pretty good, some dishes met my expectations of Canoe but some were sore disappointments. Prob more like a 3.5 stars but I will round up cause of the great cornish hen which I know is hard to get perfect and it was pretty perfect and caramel ice cream.
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