What a pleasant find! Located right across the Scotiabank theatre, this is a 2 story bar and eatery converted from a homey and rustic house on Richmond street.
Relatively small and cozy with comfortable noise level and lighting, the atmosphere of the place was great. The most surprising part was the entrance of a DJ at around 9pm on a Friday to play some live beats right on the first floor dining area - what?? Love it.
They have a relatively small menu with the food being mainly sharing plate style. Portions are on the smaller side but we got a bunch of things to share and plate by plate there was an unanimous thumbs up from us - loved all the dishes!
To start, we got some oysters ($3.5 each) - fresh and lots of onion in this which I'm a fan of. We couldn't pass up on the popular Kung pao cauliflower ($12) - coated in a thick and sticky sweet and sour sauce, the taste and texture reminds me of breaded sweet and sour shrimp. A TAD too salty for my liking but delicious nonetheless. The flaming pork sausages were also a highlight and our group devoured the 2 links within minutes!
Dessert was also pretty bomb. We ordered all 3 options on the menu. The baked cookie ice cream was too sweet but the apple crumble was really good - tangy and refreshing.
Great experience here and was able to soak in creativity from the food and plating to the environment. Will be back!