First month in Toronto and we are celebrating at Nota Bene, one of the best new restaurant in town in the past years. You can tell when a restaurant has an Italian influence when you find oil instead of butter, that's for me it's heaven, even better if the bread has a wood oven taste. We tried the signature dish Crisp Duck Salad: Sumac-dusted Green papaya, Slaw, Cashews and I had the Octopus with Spanish Chorizo, we followed with the Jennifer Stilton's Beef Brisket Burger and the Beef Tenderloin and finished with Sticky Toffee Pudding and Apple Tarte Tatin.
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| OCTOPUS WITH SPANISH CHORIZO: Baby Cucumber, Sun dried Tomatoes |
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| JENNIFER STILTON'S BRISKET BURGER: Pommes Frittes (NB Signature Dish) |
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| APPLE TARTE TATIN: Vanilla Ice Cream |
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| STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING: Pecan Praline, Spotted Dick Ice Cream
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- Crisp Duck Salad
- Octopus with Spanish Chorizo
- Brisket Beef Burger
- Beef Tenderloin
- Apple Tarte Tatin
- Sticky Toffee Pudding
- 1 bottle of water
- 1 glass of Verdicchio
The Duck salad was very nice, as it was the Octopus even if I just got 6 thin slices of it. The Burger was supposed to be the signature dish, it was a good burger but not a great one. The dessert was probably the best part of the meal, the Tarte Tatin super sweet but very good. On the bad note, we had a glass of Riesling that wasn't very good but our server was nice enough not to charge us for it.
