Author: Cathy40

While it is true that this restaurant is really a classroom for Algonquin College students in the hospitality faculty, save and except for one or two minor glitches one would never know that. Firstly, the nominal negatives. When we arrived we stood at the reception...counter for more than 10 minutes before anyone came to confirm our reservation. The person to be credited here was actually one of the student servers who noticed and came over. When our cocktails were served the wine glasses removed without, in this case the faculty member, asking whether or not we would be having wine with our dinner. The data itself was nothing short of outstanding, made even more so by the fact that the young man, Juan, who was attending us was a true delight. The only nominal mistake that he made, during the entire evening was to refer to two patrons, old enough to be his parents as 'guys'. He, however, and again to his credit accepted this slight bit of constructive criticism with grace and appreciation. Our meals were excellent. We both started off with crabcakes that were nothing short of remarkable. This of course was a beer/cheese soup and it was a little too watery. Our main courses were spectacular. My much better half had the poached trout and I had to beef. The presentation was outstanding at the taste was, for both, delicious. The apple tart/ice cream dessert was equally delicious. The other downside, if there is any, is the fact that the wine list is very limited and only offers Ontario wines. While this is understandable because this is an Ontario government-funded institution, nevertheless, some of the wines offered our best mediocre. This 'student classroom' remains one of our favoritesMore