. "3"^^ . . "2"^^ . "0"^^ . "2010-08-12T00:00:00"^^ . "BOTTOM LINE: A solid seafood oriented restaurant with some creative dishes (the wild salmon tartare is a MUST order!), but I couldn't help but feel a bit underwhelmed both in portion and flavour with some of their other servings. I'll come back in a few months to see how it is, but I'm not in any particular rush.\n\nCost:\n-Appetizers $4-9, and mains $8-14.\n\nAtmosphere/Decor:\n-As another reviewer put it, it's like a dimly lit fisherman's shack canvassed with massive harbour photos and accompanied with a variety of seating arrangements from small tables for two, to a booth for four, to a bench for six.\n-The aesthetics works well, but is cheapened by the bland tiled floor and really garish walk-in mat/rug.\n-Your favourite indie rock bands playing in the background at, perhaps, just a touch too loudly.\n\nOrdered:\n-The menu rotates frequently according to what's in season, so it's worth coming back from time to time to see what's new.\n\n1. Wild salmon tartare with nori, pollen and tobiko - Easily the highlight of the night, and not hard to understand why they keep this on the menu and rotate everything else! Fresh salmon with a hint of licorice flavour that you wrapped in seaweed sheets yourself. The provided pollen was akin to a *very* strong horseradish / wasabi.\n\n2. Wax bean and grilled calamari salad - Pretty underwhelming with very few greens and even less calamari (which tasted fresh, but much too salty).\n\n3. Trout with baby heirloom carrots and chard veloute - Granted I don't have trout all the time, but it just tasted rather bland, and the texture was a bit soft. Also, the sauce didn't seem to add or enhance the flavour of the trout.\n\n4. Scallops and duck chorizo with huitlacoche, red wine, and nibs - I love scallops, so no surprise I found this dish delicious! The scallops were fresh and meaty, and the duck chorizo paired well. My issue, again, came down to quantity: four scallops and a spoonful of chorizo for $13?! I'm certainly happy to pay for quality, but there seemed to a be a disconnect here.\n\nService:\n-I found our staff very friendly and approachable. \n-Perhaps by design, OR the fact that since we were sharing each dish they accommodated by bringing only one out at a time, OR we were hungrier than expected, but the wait seemed quite lengthy between dishes."^^ . "0"^^ . .