We drive by the restaurant on our way home from work every day, so we've been anticipating its opening for a while now as we watched it progress through various stages of construction. Onto the food...
Complementary Gruyère puff pastries to start. A nice touch, and these are essential to your endurance because it takes a looooooooooong time to peruse the very thorough drinks menu, The Genuine Article -- a sort of mini bible of cocktails.
After prolonged deliberation, I settled on a Los Angeles, and was not disappointed. Rye, lemon, sugar, Cinzano Rosso, maraschino and egg white. We were served bread with olive butter while we drank and waited for our meals.
I had a small bowl of seafood chowder. It was very good.
Next up was a crispy pig’s ear, served on sweetbreads and a bed of kale with onion soubise and shallot & parsley sauce. I most definitely did not know what sweetbreads were until now. This course was incredibly rich but a really good mix of flavours.
The menu features a daily special called the twenty four seven, which is a three-course meal for $24.07. While I didn't have that, I did manage to get them to serve me the twenty four seven dessert of the day, a white chocolate crème brûlée.
Finally, I had to order a cappuccino, because it was made by the province’s only Venus Century 100-Year Anniversary espresso machine -- one of only 100 that exist in the whole world. (The Pope also owns one.) It tasted Pope-worthy, I guess?
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