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| - Ok, so as I've mentioned in previous reviews, I don't typically bother unless it's one of the best places I've been to or one of the worst.
Have been looking forward to eating here since it opened and last night we finally made it around. Have to say, that almost everything was done perfectly. If we're going for an overall score, with everything in mind, I would've gone with a 4.5 star, strictly because they need to figure out their front door situation in the winter. We were about half way into the restaurant and every time the door opened there would be a freezing cold draft that would come in and chill my girlfriend and her wonderfully pregnant friend. So minus half point for that, but otherwise amazing.
First off, they offer you a water that has been filtered through a maple tree. We never go for anything other than tap so we passed, until... our pregnant friend showed up and we figured "hey, if she can't drink these delicious cocktails with us, why not get her fancy water" and DAMN was it actually really amazing. It taste like maple sugar water, which may sound gross but it was actually amazing. Worth $10... debatable, but really good. If you do get it, I'd recommend having at least 4 people to split with.
The apps: we had the boar and sweet potato gyoza... amazing, everyone enjoyed. Then split the Jamaican venison patty... even more amazing, wanted to eat like 4 of these.
Mains: my lovely GF and her friend both had the chestnut Gnocchi and it was unbelievably tasty. My buddy and I both had the rack of deer... I cannot express in words how unbelievably good this dish was, I would've licked the plate had it been acceptable, but instead I settled for scraping it with my fork until nothing was left. Such a perfectly put together dish with amazing flavour profiles. I'm typically a rack of lamb kind of person at restaurants, and this was so much better than any rack of lamb I've had in the city. Hand down my favourite dish of the year so far and easily would rank among the top 3 for all of last year. To put this into perspective, my GF and I eat out 3 - 5+ nights a week in varying restaurants and takeout places because we both have little time to cook.
Dessert! We weren't going to get dessert, but after a bunch of delicious cocktails and some wonderfully paired wine, we ended up ordering all 4 because everything else had been so good. Their was a "spruce ice" dish or something along those lines and it was the only one that was underwhelming. I think this may have been because it tasted a lot like a frozen version of the maple water that we'd been drinking, so didn't stand out as much. Still enjoyable though. The cheesecake was, by the end, the favourite. The apple tart with vanilla ice cream was also incredibly good and the chocolate brownie was also good.
Almost forgot to mention the service! Our waitress was playful, nice and joked around with our table even though the place was busy. Was very attentive, made great recommendations and she genuinely seemed proud to be serving everything that came to our table.
All in all, our bill wasn't cheap by any means (about $120/person after tip and only 3 of us were drinking), but it was WELL worth it and we'll certainly be going back because I'll be dreaming about that f%$#@$ rack of deer and Jamaican patty until I'm ramming it into my face once again.
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