General Food, Dining and Nightlife News

[panamaniac]

Personally, I like Imbibe's beer enough to look past the service issues, though my wife is another matter.  They had a menu adjustment in the past few months that's made ordering dinner there less appealing.

As for TWH Social, it was certainly a well lit, trendy-feeling, higher-price-tag-than-Rum-Runner kind of place. Ultimately, both my dish and my wife's dish were overly salty, so I'm not feeling compelled to spend that much money on dinner there again.  My wife says it still seems like a reasonable place for drinks, if you want somewhere that has some interesting beer as well as a more complete bar.

Tried TWH Social last night and came away reasonably pleased.   The beer list is good - we both had Beau's but I forgot to check the prices (!).  The renovated space is a huge improvement and, as you say, fairly trendy.  The food fits in the "casual fine dining" category.  I would not hesitate to go back.  It's worth noting that they are open for lunch and dinner, seven days a week (good to have a Sunday option Downtown!).  I think you may be correct that the chef needs a lighter hand with the salt, but I'll want to eat there again before deciding - like many people nowadays, I use no added salt so that restaurant food can often strike me as salty.  My carbonara pasta was fine in that regard, but my companion's frites were oversalted, which was too bad as they were otherwise very good.

Quibbles
- the wine list is weak on Canadian wines
- the vegetarian choices are a bit more limited than I would have expected
- it was very busy on Friday night and with all the hard surfaces, the noise level was really excessive.  If that is not your thing, I would suggest avoiding Friday and Saturday nights.