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| - I went here for dinner last night and I was genuinely and thoroughly impressed. Given the King St. location, and trendy decor, I was expecting good-but-not-great food, but I was pleasantly surprised, over and over again.
My girlfriend and I had six small plates, two salads, two meat dishes, and three desserts... and I didn't have my notepad with me, and they don't seem to have a menu online, so please bear with my approximate descriptions of the highlights!
Dates wrapped in iberico ham, filled with (I believe) cheese, and something spicy.
These were really awesome, brilliant! Sweet-sticky, salty-cheesy, and spicy were in harmonious balance. I was really blown away.
Baby octopus grilled-ish with chopped tomoto-ish sauce and some capers detected. Really great: extremities were crisp, centers were tender to al dente, sauce/accompaniments were light and fresh.
Salads (without going into excessive detail) had a mix of textures including crunchy (walnuts, caramelized?) and crispy (fried artichoke slices), and flavors including tasteful use of cheese.
Lamb chops with a very smooth (i.e. almost mousse-like) tomato-based sauce and caramelized onions. One of the best lamb chops I've had, starting with really good lamb: tender, flavorful, cooked properly, and in harmony with accompaniments.
Iberico flank steak: wasn't sure what to expect as I've never had a pork flank steak. It was amazing! Tender, flavorful, moist, with the surface slightly crisped. Served with slightly sweet chopped red peppers (if I recall correctly).
Given how impressed I was with the food, I decided to order dessert, even though I am normally a pretty extreme sugar nazi.
I don't know what it was called, but something like: crisp layers (wafer-like, kind of) with coffee ice cream in between and... bits of black olive. Blew me away (again), not only really ambitiously creative and different, but also really delicious.
Service was fast, attentive, accurate, and slightly amused by the amount of food I ordered.
BONUS: Best-designed sinks and faucets in the bathrooms. Faucets: abundant water, yet nearly impossible to splash yourself. Sink design: no leaning over, no stretching, no bumping your knuckles into the sink. Really an effortless pleasure to use.
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