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| - Winterlicious dinner: We had our reservation for 10:15pm on Saturday and it was still packed when we got there. We waited for about 15 min before we got seated upstairs in one of the rooms.
This restaurant is literally a house in a corner and the dining rooms are situated within various rooms of the house. It's pretty neat, cozy and romantic. If you are taking TTC, get off at Davonport Stn and walk few blocks north on Spadina.
For my appetizer, I had the ginger-curry spiced carrot & sweet potato soup. I don't usually get soups but this turned out to be excellent soup with the right amount of spice and home-made warmth to it.
My main was bit disappointing but now looking back at the menu, I should have read the menu more carefully. "Whole Roasted Black Angus Striploin with Yukon Gold Mashed Potato, Crimini Mushrooms, caramelized Onions, Barolo Red Wine Sauce". Well I completely ignored the "whole roasted black.." part so when the dish came out, it was different than what I expected. Either way, the outsides of the meat was almost burnt and had this bitter taste to it. We had to cut off the outsides of the meat. The quality was meat was good, just too burnt on the outsides. The main dish overall was heavy and too salty.
For my dessert, I ordered Wild Blueberry, Cranberry & white Chocolate Bread Pudding, Rum caramel sauce. Well it was literally wet bread and wasn't that tasty. I did not finish my dessert which is quite rare.
When we asked for a second basket of bread (which was really good btw the first time), the waiter finally brought us a basket but the bread was pretty much burnt on the outer edge. He said that there was a table that liked their bread very crispy and they apparently made them extra 'crispy' so he hoped that we didn't mind.
It took them awhile to bring our desserts..it was past midnight at this point and most of the people had left the restaurant..We waited for like 15 minutes after they took away our main dishes and I eventually had to ask one of the waiters if they had forgotten our desserts.
When it was time to pay (it was getting late and the room was getting cold, i felt like they had turned off the heat on us!), the waiter was nowhere to be seen. I had to take the bill and walk around the house to see if there were anyone left in the house!
My friend and I still had a good time but the main dish and service ruined what could have been a perfect night.
I would give this restaurant another chance but not with winterlicious/summerlicious and I would go during a more reasonable hour when there are more people working. I think this place could be quite romantic place to go dine if done right and food quality can be pretty up there as well.
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