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| - I've walked by this restaurant on the way to Whole Foods fairly often, so I decided to give it a test drive during Winterlicious.
My dining companion and I went for lunch. I had the soup (Carrot Ginger), the veal and spinach ravioli. and the Banana Chocolate Meringue cake. My companion had the same, except that she started with the Mixed Greens.
When we sat down there was bread at the table. It was a reasonable offering, however the butter was fridge hard.
Starters:
The carrot ginger soup tasted overwhelmingly of ginger. It was bland and had no other flavour note than ginger and a faint taste of carrot. Unimpressed.
My companion reports that her mixed greens were soggy. They seemed to be the same run-of-the-mill mix greens with balsamic vinaigrette that everyone has had a thousand times, but soggy.
Entrees:
The veal and spinach ravioli was very soft, almost to the point of being overcooked. The filling was flavorless.
Dessert:
I love banana, chocolate, and meringue. I was hoping for something like Chunky Monkey ice cream, but a cake. Instead we got a soggy brown colored cake that tasted of overripe brown banana pieces with a misshapen and odd tasting meringue on the outside. The chocolate taste was weak at best. If I had bought this cake at a grocery store I would have returned it.
Service:
Extremely inattentive. There was no quality check on any of the courses. In addition, the time to deliver the bill was extremely long. And, after we paid they did not wait to give us our coats but rather they threw them over the back of a chair on a nearby empty table.
I'm not sure, given the other positive reviews, if this restaurant can be ok but for some reason made a really lazy Winterlicious menu. Regardless, I use Winterlicious to test out restaurants that I have been to before or haven't been to lately. That's what we did here and they failed. We would not return for a regular meal.
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