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| - Had an enjoyable dinner at The Atlantic. A Wednesday night, slushy snow outside, not many other patrons in the restaurant. Still a welcoming, intimate atmosphere, and somehow the large image of a dead whale on the wall felt just right.
Decided on the tasting menu. Seven dishes including, soup, salad, starter, pasta, fish, duck and dessert. In the beginning, I was wary of a high pretension level, seeing as the soup had "truffle foam", the salad was "probiotic" and the starter had "cedar ash, made in house" sprinkled all over it. As the meal moved forward, and my consumption of champagne cocktails increased, I relaxed and let the foam and ash wash over me. And I settled into the fact that the food was well done and I was in fact enjoying it quite a bit.
Favourite items were the sunchoke soup with hazelnut granola, the duck with turnip and mayonnaise, and one of the desserts, which was flourless and chocolate. Least favourite items were the other dessert, a cake made of beets, and the arctic char, which had an extremely smokey flavour. Although the barley risotto which accompanied the char was absolutely lovely.
The service was almost perfect. Attentive without being too intrusive, and the servers seemed to come to the table at exactly the right times.
Would definitely go back to the Atlantic for the tasting menu, but would also be interested in trying some of the tapas-style menu that others have talked about.
P.S. Short, but sweet cocktail menu.
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