Yesterday we celebrated my sisters father in laws 65th birthday with all his close friends and had a private room in Canlis. A very popular and high end restaurant. It's so fancy that there's a dress code and I work at a pretty nice, classy, expensive steak house, but there's no dress code. Canlis is top notch fancy. Anyways, when everyone arrived they had the servers come around with appetizers. Each appetizer was served on a spoon, similar to the asian spoons you use to eat soup. Let me tell you, they were amazing! It tasted so good! There was tiny crab cakes, teriyaki beef, smoked salmon and quiche. I didn't get to take a picture of any of the food except the dessert :( For our entrees we had three choices halibut, roasted herb chicken or filet mignon and of course the majority of the party chose the filet mignon. I personally chose it because I love steak and I wanted to compare it to The Metropolitan Grill. The filet mignon was good and it had this sauce, but I have no idea what it was. Possibly a sweet potato puree? Anyways there was a little bit of sides that came with it, but what I really enjoyed was the sides that they brought out for all of us to share which was zucchini and mushrooms. I love mushrooms! One this I thought was a bit strange was that the servers were on point. They came out with everyones plate and set them in front of us at the same time and they don't do that until everyone is seated. Apparently their service is impeccable. They even fold your napkins when you get up from your chair. Anyways back to the filet, I like The Mets better because it's more flavorful.
On to the desserts we had chocolate cake with chocolate mousse that we brought and they provided the creme brûlée, passion fruit tart and chocolate mousse covered in dark chocolate and caramel. Super rich! And of course coffee. I recommend Canlis if you want to spend $$$$$
