Seedlings - Bloomfield

The place is charming with its pretty terrace offering a cuisine sought after in flavors, local terroirs: wine ontario, fine herb garden, fish, rabbit, duck etc. The service is excellent, the plates are tasty (a little salty but not generous and expensive: a local wine cut for 13 and a à la carte menu (entrance, dishes, accompaniments and desserts or family format. Brief, if you want to eat well, but are ready to receive a salted invoice; It's the right place.

I guess the food industry can be challenging, but this place must increase the level of the kitchen for the prices they charge. for $14 my gnocci would have been acceptable, but for the money they have charged, it was too expensive. Finally, the introductory remarks of the server after the menus fall on the table, so what do they want? not the best way to start a culinary experience. later, when she asked if she told Decaf coffee, tells us about a long break, well, I'm not sure....I did something this morning. also shorts and a tasty t-shirt for the beach should be saved, not for customers. if this place should remain viable, they must work on their eating and service. in fairness seemed other server polite and attentive.

Anniversary dinner. Ordered perch cakes, wedge salad, pea/ricotta pasta, striploin with potato salad, and a side of warmed radishes (server recommendation). Wedge salad was bland and relied on pancetta to season it. All the dressing was on the bottom three forkfuls of lettuce and the few pickled shallots provided little punch to kick up the flavour. The perch cakes. Ugh. First bite was eggy cilantro. The menu said nothing about cilantro, which for many people is a love it or hate it herb. Overwhelming Thai sauce helped mask the cilantro but the cake was bland and rubbery. Then came the hair. 1/2 way through the first cake was a long blonde hair inside the cake. Our server removed the plate without an apology. She appeared a minute later to say 'the guys in the kitchen are fighting over who is responsible ' and 'it 's quite a fun scene to watch '. No apology. No manager, no owner, nothing. When I order a medium rare striploin I don 't envision SOUS VIDE, PRE-SLICED with an inedible layer of unrendered fat and gristle. As the server set it down, she explained it was local beef which they sous vide to help tenderize it, as it can be a bit tough, so if I find it a bit chewy that 's why. The potato salad was tasty. The steak was horrible. Luke-warm, underseasoned and tough. Why not mention sous vide on your menu or as your guest is ordering? I would 've steered clear. I ate 3 bites of the steak. Another server came and started to take away our plates, asking if there was a problem. I told her the steak was cold, chewy and inedible. No apology or empathy, then the radishes arrive, AFTER we were done. We asked for the bill. As she set it down, she said 'I 'm sorry you didn 't like your food '. The only good part of the meal was the pasta my partner had but it was a 1/2 portion, and done in about 5 bites. They only charged us for the bottle of cider, which was the right thing to do, but NOBODY ever came and apologized. What a waste of our anniversary night dinner plans.

Food was not worth the money. Portion size small and the chicken dish could have just been bought from a grocery store, not much taste.

Food was very disappointing. We spent $130 for dinner and it was nowhere close to what we expected. I was so excited with the duck dish but was so very disappointed. Very dry. The chicken dish was not good at all for the value. The half chicken was like braised in chicken broth with a tad of bokchoy on the side. It had no character at all. We've been to a good number of restaurants in the County and this one disappointed us for sure. Not coming back.