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2015-04-19
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On the way to another restaurant, we came in Fish and Meat instead to try out their Sunday brunch.Nice casual atmosphere. High point being the balcony where you can see the Sunday traffic coming down the hill. There has been a flood of restaurants with this type of casual decor in the past several years. Aberdeen Social, Modern Upper Bistro, 22 Ships, just to name a few. No surprises here.Bumped my head into the low hanging light twice and turned out the lighting layout is such that it is imposs
Nice casual atmosphere. High point being the balcony where you can see the Sunday traffic coming down the hill. There has been a flood of restaurants with this type of casual decor in the past several years. Aberdeen Social, Modern Upper Bistro, 22 Ships, just to name a few. No surprises here.
Bumped my head into the low hanging light twice and turned out the lighting layout is such that it is impossible to have all the low hanging lights directly above the tables.
Brunch was about $400 but that was just the start. You get dishes buffet style, and then a main couse of choice. Apart from a mushroom on brioche and a risotto, there was a significant supplement to every main course. If you want a beef main course you pay $140 extra. Chicken is $230 extra, fish ... you get the idea. That takes the brunch price anywhere up to $550+.
OK this was a bit unexpected. So we headed out to the brunch buffet first. Nice creative stuff, but mostly fairly economic ingredients. A pancake station. Various salads consisting of lots of lettuce and small amount of another ingredient - one with crabmeat, another with sliced beef, and one with smoked salmon, and so forth. Some cold cuts. There are some small oysters. That's about it. All nice ideas and combinations of flavors. But even at this price you are not getting a roast, shellfish, or anything that could hurt their margin.
It's nicely done. There is a variety of creative mixing of dishes that the value equation takes a little while to dawn on you. Then you think, hey, hold it. So we all ordered the mushroom brioche and one of us went for the beef. Beef was nice. Not exceptional. The mushroom brioche was just awful.
Compare this with the Sunday brunch at Flint at the Marriott and you get a far far better deal for around the same sort of money. There, you get 5J Spanish ballota ham, fresh morzarella cheese, snow crab, lobsters, and a huge main course that you can see the money went into the ingredients. Blows this place out of the water.
I think this group also has a restaurant on Repulse Bay and again you have to wonder about the pricing for what they are giving you.
Brunch for four persons, with one person going for the beef and the other three just ordering the mushroom brioche, came to just over $2,000. I think $400 for this buffet with the beef or chicken main course included is probably fairer. Not again for me.
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