We both started with the homemade duck pate with pickled vegetables on toast. I thought it was pretty good, but G thought the pickled vegetables made the dish overly sour.
For the main course, I had the slow cooked pork loin. No complaints about this one, the dish was fine if uninspiring. The pork was cooked well, nice and tender.
G ordered the veal picatta, which was terrible. They should have served the veal with a chainsaw. It was very tough, and it was also extremely lemon-y - it tasted like it had been doused in lemon juice.
On the plus side the desserts were quite tasty. G had the sticky toffee pudding with honey and ginger ice cream, which was very ginger-y, and very good.
I had the coffee and chocolate float, which is coffee flavored soda with chocolate ice cream. I thought it was very well executed, and was pleasantly surprised that coffee soda would taste so good.
Of course nothing caps off an evening like poor service. He took away all of our wine glasses without asking whether we wanted to order wine, so I simply didn't order any. He was not very attentive to our table during the meal, and topped it off with forgetting to add something to the bill which I had to go find him to correct after waiting for 10 minutes at the table.
L'Abattoir did not live up to the rave reviews we had been given, and was not worth the $38 Dine Out price. We will probably not be going there again.
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