Xavier Mootoo

I went here to take my girlfriend out for her birthday, I think I made the perfect choice. The ambience and booth was perfect, it made for a really romantic night. The pear & arugula salad was probably the best salad I've ever had in my life, I was not expecting that and it was the highlight of our meal. We had the fried eggplant which was really nice but a bit bready, and the middle eastern fried chicken which was awesome. We finished the meal by sharing a rolled baklava, which really interesting as it had a lot of orange flavour with it, we both loved it. We're looking forward to coming back.

We started off with a watermelon salad which was nice, and a charcuterie board (which was definitely overpriced), then had duck confit and the foie gras for the mains; the duck confit was great but the foie gras was superb. Hard to get attention of waiters sometimes (even though they had a surplus of them?..), but it was a good atmosphere overall. Don't think I'll come back but was a overall a nice experience.

Amazing museum, and to my surprise it is FREE to everyone on Sunday afternoons which is when I went. The main exhibit (which is a collection of smaller exhibits) is not very large, you can go through everything at a leisurely pace and finish in ~1.5hrs, but they have some very nice pieces, Rembrandt and Monet included among others.

My only feedback is that they need to work on their lighting for some paintings; the light was so close to the piece sometimes that there was too much glare reflected off the painting to see the details accurately.