. "0"^^ . "4"^^ . . "0"^^ . . "As part of Big Taste Calgary, I decided to treat my sister to lunch here for her birthday.\n\nI figured it would be busy due to Big Taste so we made reservations for 11:30, the hostess showed us to our table as soon as we arrived. We got seated in the front area, it was nice to see outside and the people starting to pile in for lunch.\n\nOur first course was a candied fig and walnut salad and it was really good! I normally don't like goat cheese, but it was a nice pairing with the house dressing.\n\nNext came our entree, the dirty blonde Mac and cheese with ale braised pork drumstick and the portion was quite huge! We probably could have just shared it between the two of us. The pork was so good, crispy and really flavorful. The mac & cheese was pretty bland, even after \"a-salting\" it, it still was bleh.\n\nWhile we were eating and it started to get busy, huge wind gusts kept blasting into the area we were sitting from people opening and closing the door. It was pretty chilly and quite irritating - I ended up having to put my coat on. So note to those who come here, try to get a table closer to the back area away from the door if it's cold out.\n\nWhen I read the dessert: chocolate chip and Bacon ice cream sandwich, I was like YES! My 3 faves mashed together: cookies, bacon and ice cream! I wish my mouth agreed. The maple ice cream was good, the bacon crusted cookies were not really good. The bacon wasn't crisp so it was kinda chewy and the cookie was quite hard - I ended up only eating part of the cookie that didn't have bacon on it :(\n\nIt was a good experience (food for the most part was delish, service was awesome), I looked up their regular menu online and there are some tasty dishes I'd like to try so I'd definitely go back"^^ . "0"^^ . "2013-03-13T00:00:00"^^ .