North 44

Ian and I went all-out last night and went to North 44 for dinner. The chef at this place, Mark McKewan, also has a food network Canada TV show!! How exciting (mocking tone)! Of course, Ian worried that this would inflate the price due to a horde of TV lovers converging on the place. It certainly not cheap, but I think the high prices were more due to the tasty food aspect of it.

Ian started with the halibut and scallop cakes with some lime avocado stuff on the side. Was extremely yummy, but certainly not great value at about $10 per toonie sized cake. Our waiter was actually pretty good and helpful, but the person they had actually bringing out some of the food seemed to be kind of a dolt - she actually called them crab cakes! Ha ha!

We had a bottle of some type of white Italian recommended by our waiter - it was pretty tasty and went well with the fish cakes. The real highlight was the wine cooler - it appeared to be a two compartment steel bottle holder - where you put the bottle of wine on one side and ice on the other! If only Ian and I were more into welding, we could whip it up!

For the main course, Ian went meaty and had bison tenderloin placed on top of soy flavored spinach and a piece of ravoili. Was also some squash on the side. Ian ordered medium rare. The bison was pretty tasty and surprisingly not tough at all.

I had the snapper special with fingerling potato with some random veggies on the side. Ian called the fish "exquisite". Ha ha!

To end the night, we ordered the desert sampler. It was all very good, but they put a bit too much fruit stuff and not enough chocolate related items on there. They listed a couple chocolate/caramel related things on the desert menu, but they were nowhere to be seen on the sampler plate. A bit of a disapointment and next time I would just order one thing.

Overall, the tasty factor was very high, service was good, decor was good, but the price makes this a once a year event at most!