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| - I like this restaurant. It's a nice, quiet (depending when you go) It has one of the best patios ever.
Location:
It's on the Lake next to the Pickering marina, so in the summer you can sit outside at brunch sipping mimosas watching the boats come into the harbour or watch the ducks swim by. Sigh. Heaven. In the winter and fall you can sit in the lounge area with it's high windows watching the waves. So relaxing.
Vibe:
It's a nicer restaurant. Nothing exorbitant price wise but nice. The people that brunch hear look like the country club / sailing set. Chinos, golf shirts, cute summer dresses. No worries, I was wearing jeans and flip flops, the lounge is a bit more casual, and actually cooler. it was all good there.
Food:
All seated in the banquet chair hybrid booth we ordered the roasted garlic hummus plate appetizer, the souffle pancake and the fried chicken club to share and (much needed) coffee to drink.
The coffee came first. It was actually really terrible. We were there just after the place opened. The coffee tasted like it had been around for a while. Who ever made it likes their coffee strong. It certainly was, it punched back pretty hard.
The Hummus came next. It was in a good looking dish. It tasted delicious. The dish hummus was covered in a sprinkling of what looked like cayenne. That was just the kick that elevate a great dish to fantastic. It came with small rounds of bread (still oven warm) cucumber, yellow and green zucchini, pickled beet ( yum) and pickled onion (weird). I would have never paired pickled things with hummus, but I will from now on! I will get this every time I come.
The Hummus. Cayenne and crispy chickpeas on top. The best dish of the day!!
Next we waited, and waited. Then we noticed that everyone who came in after us were getting their food. We hadn't seen each other in a while, we had already cut our hunger with the hummus, so it was all good. We got a refill of strong coffee and waited a bit more. The waitress ( who was so nice by the way) came by with her and the kitchens apologies and said the pancake wasn't coming out like they wanted so it was going to be 7 more minutes. She put down a plate of bread with butter. Compliments of the kitchen. um. nice gesture. I mean a free drink would have been way better, but it's all cool. The bread was nice and warm from the oven, steaming when you ripped it open. butter melted into it. Kinda hoppy tasking like it was a beer bread. Was delish.
Complimentary bread. Oven warm, couldn't capture the steam rising from it. Who doesn't like free soft warm bread?
So then we waited some more. Seven minutes passed and we still waited some more. We were still catching up so it was all cool. They are lucky we are so easy going, it was now well over an hour wait.
So the food came.Looked great!!
The pancake looked great. Worth the wait. Housemade obviously. Blueberry Compote, the whipped cream has a slight vanilla flavour, and it was sprinkled with icing sugar. we noticed after that it said there was maple syrup but we never noticed it, actually we talked about asking for some but decided the blueberry and cream were enough
Next we dug into the fried chicken club. It contained avocado, tomato, an ancho ranch dressing, and friend chicken. It came with a side of fries.
This was just okay. I wouldn't get this again. it was messy and with the tomatoes and sauce, it was really liquidy and it made the inside of the bun really soggy. The fries were absolutely delicious.
So this was the first time we came for brunch. To be perfectly honest it was disappointing. $15 is definitely too much for a pancake, especially one that was just good. Coffee was bad and the sandwich disappointing. But when we came for lunches and dinners the food was great. I guess we can say the food is inconsistant.
Ill be back because I do like it, and the view is spectacular. The neighbourhood is wonderful.
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