5 /5 Monica Young: We made dinner reservations here prior to a concert at the Park Theater. We arrived about 15 minutes early, and were seated immediately. It was restaurant week and there was an event at the Forum so the restaurant ended up being packed by the time we left. The noise volume is pretty high when it’s busy, and the seats by the window are drafty, that’s why I only gave 4 stars for atmosphere.
We had the poutine to split and they brought a few slices of focaccia with oil. The focaccia was good and we would have gladly had more if it was offered! The poutine had a brown gravy and pulled pork; my dining partners loved it, I thought it wasn’t well seasoned, and definitely under-salted. For the entrees, we had the gnocchi bolognese (the gnocchis were huge! Bolognese was good but not as good as the sauce they used the last time we were here), the lamb chop, and the salmon (with a beet risotto that was interesting, but didn’t eat like a creamy risotto).
We had time for dessert so split several. The German chocolate cake was the best of them; tender cake, delicious frosting, nice toasted coconut and caramel topping. The carrot cake was good but seemed like it had just been taken out of the fridge, so was a bit hard and we would have loved a larger layer of frosting between the layers. The pumpkin in the cheesecake was very tasty, it was the bottom layer under the cream cheese.
They have a nice list of seasonal cocktails, a wide variety of beers and wines (including orange wine) by the glass and bottle. They also have some mocktails.
For 4 people the bill with tip was about $100pp. The food was very good and came out of the kitchen relatively quickly.
