I came here after walking up and down the street looking for a restaurant to have a late lunch. This was the only one that caught my eye.
This restaurant was pretty much empty with the exception of 1 table of people when we strolled in around 1:30pm on a week day. This place looks like your typical classy restaurant with a large bar with a wide array of wines, white linen tables and exposed brick on both sides of the restaurant. Service was friendly but the food was a tad slow - probably because they didn't have much kitchen staff onboard at this time (when I walked by the kitchen, there only seemed to be a couple of people in there).
Anyway, I had their lunch special which was $18 for a soup of the day, a main from a short list, dessert & coffee/tea. I chose their bolognese penne and their soup, we were told, was zucchini but we think it was butternut squash since it was orange. Umm...yeah, maybe we heard wrong. No matter, I really like butternut squash soup so I enjoyed it. We were also served crusty bread (yummeh!) with olive oil & balsamic vinegar. My penne was a bit on the oily side but the bolognese sauce was hearty with the ground meat. I wanted a bit of spice so our waiter got me some house made chili oil - fantastic! It gave the kick I wanted and I do prefer chili oil over chili flakes. My fiance had the fish of the day which was halibut. It was cooked really well - flaky with a seared crust on the outside. It came with broccolini, yellow peppers & potatoes. He really liked the fish and yellow peppers but didn't care too much for the broccolini & potatoes.
My dessert was a bay leaf flavoured panna cotta. Niiiice! Never had it before so I was looking forward to it. It was very good and the bay leaf flavour was strong but not overwhelming. I thought it was interesting and tasty.
Glad we stopped here.