text: We almost bailed on this place because of the NY reviewers below but realized they had posted on like every possible reviewing site and were soooo angry that we decided they had some personal vendetta towards the restaurant to go through the process of posting the same complaint to sooo many sites Thinking of how many people eat there every evening and theirs being the worst review led us to roll the dice nnWe had heard about this from the Andrew Zimmern Montreal episode but when I tried making reservations over a month out it kept giving me an option beyond our travel dates A few days before we left I tried calling and to my surprise they offered us a late evening reservation We were excited nnOn the day of we actually ended up arriving almost minutes early figured we would walk around if they would not take us but they quickly led us to our table The restaurant was busy but not as tight fitting as some of these reviews had led me to believe We were greeted by an informative waitress who quickly switched to english to deal with us Sadly for her it seemed every table that came in after us in her section was American so I felt bad for her as most tables struggled to read the chalkboard menu and needed extensive help We were crazy enough to bring our teen daughters along but she was sweet and patient with us as we had her make recommendations We decided to have the girls try sea whelk which they were hesitant about but ended up loving Then based on a recommendation went with the rib steak for to split among the four of us as our main entree We are SOOOO lucky we only got that because the rib steak was so big that even with all of us having some we actually ended up leaving two slices of the meat that we could not finish The meat was very flavorful and each of us loved it It came with a smoked sausage that was wonderful The only complaint was the main dish came with a side that was a baked celery root and it was sooooo salty we could not eat it nnOverall a great experience