The food was ok. There was nothing special about it and the predominant flavor of the main was salt and dessert was sugar. We started with the Stilton fondue which was delicious and enjoyed a bottle of wine, a Canadian Cassini Bordeaux blend. Both the...starter and wine were the only redeeming part of the meal.
For our mains we had a NY strip and the house Cannelloni. The Cannelloni was dry and the sauce was under-seasoned. The steak had an overarching salt flavor and the vegetables were undercooked, almost raw. The shining star of the steak dish was the chimichurri, which they almost perfected but needed garlic and the addition of red chili.
We ended with dessert to-go with the berry cheesecake and chocolate truffle. The cheesecake literally tasted like raw cream cheese with sugar sauce with sparse berry bites. The truffle was gross, the forward flavor was sugar with an extremely faint cocoa flavor.
The food lacked complexity of flavor and was similar to airline food or something you would be served at a professional conference.
We booked our reservation several weeks prior to our trip into Golden to celebrate a special occasion. When we booked by phone we included our dogs on the reservation. On the day of our meal we noted that there was another table with a dog right next to them on the grass but we were told we had to tie our dogs approx 20-25 meters away in direct sun. When we asked about our dogs staying next to our table on the grass we were told, no. We pressed and asked what was different about our dogs and were told “it’s dog central today”. We then bore witness to several staff members complaining amongst themselves, in front of guest tables, how busy it was and how “this is too much today”.
Our server, although amicable, asked us for our order, but greeted a local and her guests (it was obvious they knew each other) with talking them through specials and recommendations. Being from a tourist town, we know your locals carry you through shoulder season but don’t make it so obvious you must endure tourists and have double standards.More