text: I came to get a takeout lunch and ordered soup and the Italia salad The soup was a just passable puruee of hard to define vegetables and the flavor was mainly of cream and salt although a hint of garlic was detectable The salad Oh dear Well I ordered it to go and it was put in a liter soup container so that the pieces of prosciutto Parmesan cheese and capers were on top and the lettuce below I had to wait quite a while even though they were only moderately busy As I was leaving the cook ran after me and gave me the dressing she had forgotten to put in the bag with my salad so points for remembering and running after me but demerits for having forgotten in the first place When I got back to the office and peeled back the lid on my little salad treasure capsule I spread the contents out on a plate The prosciutto clung together in a prosciutto meat ball and there were a few sprouts that had nothing to do with anything Italian and then there were about five capers anyone who knows me knows I am a huge caper fan so demerits on the lack of capers too On top of everything was some crumbled parmesan cheese I tried the prodigal dressing and it was awful The trinity for this place seems to be cream garlic and salt which is basically what the dressing was and again it had very little to do with Italian flavors except for the garlic of course If you are going to call a salad Italia then a smattering of prosciutto capers and parmesan on lettuce is a poor attempt At least add some grilled eggplant zucchini artichoke pickled mushrooms to the aforementioned and serve it with a nice olive oil vinaigrette The cardinal sin for me though was the fact that they had not even bothered to sort the bad lettuce from the good and I wonder whether or not they did not just reach in a bag of big bulk store restaurant lettuce without washing it or looking at it to see if it was rotten before packing it up for me I found about ten to fifteen pieces of edible lettuce while the rest was wilted rotting brown or just yuck I have no idea why restaurants that charge or more for a meal salad do not ensure that the main component of that salad is not perfect and moreover why people often let them get away with it this is not the first baby romaine disaster I have had in Montreal unfortunately The bulk of my only giving two stars to this place lies with the lack of attention to detail that allowed me to receive a basically inedible salad and with the lack of imagination and poor execution in the dishes themselves Maybe they make great stuff otherwise and I just caught them in a bad moment but there are too many other good places in the Old Port for me to give this one another chance Sorry so negative Happy thoughts from now on Ommmm