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| - I feel really bad giving low stars because I am a nice person, but with so many restaurants in Toronto I was quite disappointed with most of the food we tried. Before the bad, here are the two really good things I had.
Good
1) Diablo Con Fuego
2) Lettuce Meal
The drink was bright, flavourful, with a bit of sweet and heat. Don't put your lips where the pepper was, it will burn, a lot. I did it 3 times :s Lettuce meal, sooooo good! The braised beef was cooked to perfection and full of flavour, unfortunately it was the only dish I enjoyed.
Okay, now the bad :(
Fancy wings, fish wrap, spicy popcorn shrimp, calamari, spicy beef tartare, oysters
The wings and calamari appeared to have the same sauce...so they kind of tasted the same. The wings were too garlicy, and I love garlic. The fish wrap was plain and with no special flavours. The tartar sauce tasted like regular mayo and the cilantro didn't do anything to bring it together. Perhaps a bit of heat and extra salt would have helped. Spicy popcorn shrimp was a cool concept (literally popcorn battered shrimp), but so so. It needed a dipping sauce to bring the pepper and the dryness of the popcorn and shrimp together. Beef tartare was nice, but too saucy. When eating tartare, I love to feel the texture of the beef in my mouth. I liked the shrimp chip (I think it was a shrimp chip) that came with the tartare because when you topped it, it started to crackle, which was pretty cool. Oysters...I've had better.
To ensure I wasn't having a bad day with flavours, I asked my supper club I was with (5 of them) and they all agreed with my opinion about the meal. Unfortunately, it just didn't do it for us, and we eat out a lot.
I hate leaving off on a bad note, so one other good thing I have to mention was the ambiance. The restaurant is small and intimate with great mood lighting and would be a great place to hang with friends for some drinks.
Sorry Chantecler :(
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