I was here tonight for a first date. My date and I split 3 appetizers: the Pickerel Tostada, Smoked Chili Tiger Prawns, and Sweet Potato Fries.
The Pickerel Tostada was rich with flavour and ingredients and was my favourite of the bunch but the Smoked Chili Tiger Prawns were a close second. The actual prawns themselves were excellently seasoned and tasted amazing with the spiced honey and tomato cilantro vinaigrette sauce but the lentil quenelle that came with it left something to be desired for me. Perhaps if you get a really good dollop of the spiced honey sauce on the quenelle the flavours improve but eating the lentil quenelle alone left a bland almost cardboard like taste. I think the key is to get some of everything on the fork and then maybe the flavours and consistencies blend nicely together. The plate would have satisfied me much more had it been all prawns and sauce no lentil. The Sweet Potato fries were ante'd up a notch with a dip I'd never had with sweet potato fries before. Unfortunately it's not described on the menu and I didn't think to ask the waiter but it tasted almost like a ranch and blue cheese combination with what looked like green onion mixed it. It was delicious and a welcome change from the traditional chipotle mayo sauce we're all used to.
Not sure if management pushes the staff to get people in an out ASAP but our waiter brought us our bills while our plates were only half eaten (we had been there maybe 30 minutes) and came back ten minutes later and grabbed our plates (which still had food on them) in a manner that lead me to believe our time was up. He did ask before he walked away with the plates but when the waiter's hand is possessively holding your plate and then they ask you if you're done you say "Yes master! Sorry master for being so slow". This as I said was with food still on the plates AND half consumed beverages. I left that restaurant having not finished my cider; a feat that I assure you has never occurred before.
It was nowhere near closing time and it was a Monday night.
Though hustled out the evening was enjoyable and we went on to a pub nearby for more drinks. Had we not been rushed, the restaurant would of got at least one maybe two more rounds out of us.
I'd go back but I won't be hurried out like that again.