A suprising find....

We headed out for dinner on Saturday night without anywhere specific in mind. We eventually went to Whyte Ave to see if anything tickled our fancy. After some wandering and an attempt to get into one fully-booked restaurant we ducked into a well-known chain restaurant, (I'm too embarrassed to tell you the name) mostly because I needed to use the bathroom. We were so disappointed with the menu that we ended up ordering a small nacho plate to share so that we would have room for food from somewhere else afterwards. Our food took an unbelievable 40 minutes to arrive. We scarfed it down and got out of there as fast as we could. Just around the corner we stumbled upon "Flavours Bistro". The menu looked great, as did the atmosphere so we went straight in. The place had a candle-lit brick interior with funky modern art decorating the walls. We felt a bit under-dressed since we were both wearing jeans and sweatshirts but our friendly server didn't seem to hold it against us. We decided to order four small plates to share, rather than entrees so our server moved us to a slightly larger table to accommodate all of our plates. We had duck spring rolls, which came with a daikon salad and fruit coulis, a decadent and creamy portabello mushroom and goat cheese lasagna, a colourful heirloom tomato salad with grilled halloumi cheese and an olive and feta plate. Everything was absolutely gorgeous (I was kicking myself for not bringing my camera) and delicious. We spent less than $80 for all of it including a half bottle of wine. It was a great find and we will definitely be going back, with my camera.