Comments on: O.Noir Restaurant Review http://www.citynetmagazine.com/entertainment/food/onoir-restaurant.html Which City? Every City. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: One Shot Deal http://www.citynetmagazine.com/entertainment/food/onoir-restaurant.html/comment-page-1#comment-712 One Shot Deal Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:49:57 +0000 http://www.citynetmagazine.com/?p=3078#comment-712 I was also enthusiastic about the experience but didn't feel as if we got our money's worth. Four of us ordered the 3 course meal, and we also ordered 2 bottles of wine, one red, one white. The plates were full size, but the food was scant. The biggest dissapointment was the filet mignon, precut into 3, maybe 4 1-inch pieces, and no there wasn't any that fell off the plate onto the table. Potatoes? 3-4 shaved potatoes with one piece of asparagus cooked eldante. Tasty but not enough food to sustain really. I ordered the surprise and told them I did not eat fish, and if there was fish I would order differently. Low and behold, the appetizer was salmon, I felt this to be unacceptable. About the wine, they pour it outside, and the glasses are small so I don't think you're getting the full bottle. All in all, the experience was frustrating, the food was scant, and the noise level was disturbing. The billl for 4 was close to $325.00. I know that when I go to Bumpkin's and spend this kind of money, I get an unforgettable meal and you can barely walk out of the place. Total satiation. I appreciate that the waitstaff who are blind are making a living, but give them something to carry to the table, not just a big plate with lettuce on it. I was also enthusiastic about the experience but didn’t feel as if we got our money’s worth. Four of us ordered the 3 course meal, and we also ordered 2 bottles of wine, one red, one white. The plates were full size, but the food was scant. The biggest dissapointment was the filet mignon, precut into 3, maybe 4 1-inch pieces, and no there wasn’t any that fell off the plate onto the table. Potatoes? 3-4 shaved potatoes with one piece of asparagus cooked eldante. Tasty but not enough food to sustain really.

I ordered the surprise and told them I did not eat fish, and if there was fish I would order differently. Low and behold, the appetizer was salmon, I felt this to be unacceptable.

About the wine, they pour it outside, and the glasses are small so I don’t think you’re getting the full bottle. All in all, the experience was frustrating, the food was scant, and the noise level was disturbing.

The billl for 4 was close to $325.00. I know that when I go to Bumpkin’s and spend this kind of money, I get an unforgettable meal and you can barely walk out of the place. Total satiation.

I appreciate that the waitstaff who are blind are making a living, but give them something to carry to the table, not just a big plate with lettuce on it.

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]]> By: Love Food http://www.citynetmagazine.com/entertainment/food/onoir-restaurant.html/comment-page-1#comment-663 Love Food Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:24:49 +0000 http://www.citynetmagazine.com/?p=3078#comment-663 Not worth the money. I was very enthusiastic about the experience but ended up being disappointed. I can’t figure out if being in the dark is a green light to serve low quality food at an expensive price. I don't know if they downgraded the quality of their food or they changed the chef. All I can say you can eat far better food in Montreal for the price you pay there. I took the surprise menu to be surprised with raviolis as starter. They tasted like the frozen kind from the texture. The meal was some kind of meat maybe tenderized veal... a mixture of mushrooms porcini and regular ones I could tell from the taste and the size. Few baby carrots and green beans again frozen. The carrots were well cooked. The beans were aldante in weird way, not raw and not cooked a texture you get when you hurry up cooking the frozen kind. The meat and VGs were flooded by a demi-glace sauce. The only good things was the potato oven baked flavored with rosemary. I found the service to be pretty fast. We were in and out in less than an hour. Totally not worth 37+tax+tip (btw, the hostess insists it’s a 15% that she prefers to add to your credit card bill). Not worth the money. I was very enthusiastic about the experience but ended up being disappointed. I can’t figure out if being in the dark is a green light to serve low quality food at an expensive price. I don’t know if they downgraded the quality of their food or they changed the chef. All I can say you can eat far better food in Montreal for the price you pay there.

I took the surprise menu to be surprised with raviolis as starter. They tasted like the frozen kind from the texture. The meal was some kind of meat maybe tenderized veal… a mixture of mushrooms porcini and regular ones I could tell from the taste and the size. Few baby carrots and green beans again frozen. The carrots were well cooked. The beans were aldante in weird way, not raw and not cooked a texture you get when you hurry up cooking the frozen kind. The meat and VGs were flooded by a demi-glace sauce.

The only good things was the potato oven baked flavored with rosemary. I found the service to be pretty fast. We were in and out in less than an hour. Totally not worth 37+tax+tip (btw, the hostess insists it’s a 15% that she prefers to add to your credit card bill).

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