**PENDING REWRITE DUE TO SLEEPINESS** - 01/30/2010 - 1AM
**REWRITE IGNORED DUE TO LAZINESS** - 01/30/2010 - 2PM
I've gone to a few of summer/winterlicious things now. Only to 3 places for dinner, Auberge du Pommier, Benihana, and today to Didier. While the food was great, I don't think the food measured up to Auberge du Pommier, but the experience was much better. The staff here was really exceptional, funny, courteous, they made my night.
FYI Benihana was clearly the worst of the 3. It was a regular teppanyaki place, but like, 3x more expensive. yikes. that was a fail of a winterlicious.
If you're curious, I got a Pumpkin Puree appetizer, Jarret D’Agneau Crécy
(Braised lamb shank, carrot puree) entreé and a Gâteau au Chocolat Chaud
(Valrhona warm chocolate cake, chocolate sauce) dessert. The pumpkin puree appetizer was awesome in both presentation and taste. The Lamb looked awesome but didn't satisfy my taste buds. Someone else at my table that ordered it thought it was great though, maybe it was just me.
You can see the menu here:
http://www.toronto.com/restaurants/article/647842
One of the koolest parts was that Chef Didier Leroy came out after the meal, asked how the food was, and shook everyone's hand. I thought that was awesome.
It was pricey, even for winterlicious.
14 for 2 bottles of flat water.
60 for a bottle of champagne (about 5 glasses worth)
and the food, 45/person.
total it was like, 85 including tax & 17%~ gratuity.
Anyways, fun night. I really suck at restaurant and food review. I don't think I should do this again.
Oh well, it was nice to write something for tonight.
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