Thistle & Leek

Excellent restaurant. Transparent to show the kitchen to the guests. Staff are super friendly and helpful. I liked the carrot veggie and potato snack. The popular lamb meatballs were incredibly soft and tasty with some Indian touch. They are also kid friendly, and also offer pasta to kids. The one downside was the apple baklava - I hope they come to up something better. Also, hazelnut ice cream may be a good pairing to the rice pudding or some other dessert.

My feelings about the place are mixed. The restaurant is very popular, and most of the dishes are tasty. The concept is “small portions,” and they really are small. If you want to leave full and not just snack, the bill can get quite high. For example, the pork schnitzel costs $23 and is about half the size of what you get in many Italian restaurants in the city. The steak tartare had a lot of fibers and was disappointing. One dish deserves a special note: the potato rösti. It’s very tasty and extremely crispy. However, people who care about health should know that this dish is likely high in acrylamide, a substance suspected of being carcinogenic. The darker and more burnt potatoes or bread are, the more acrylamide they contain. This rösti, with its deep brown color, is delicious but not

Food was very, very good - tartare relied on the salt from the chips to lift it, and was a little flat but The lamb meat balls and broccoli rabe pasta showed range and were outstanding. The pork schnitzel also looked excellent and the carrots smelled fantastic (we sat at the chef counter which was cool). The serving was amateur - sorry I don’t have a better term. Timing is everything with small plates and they missed massively. It seemed they really wanted to get us out of there - and they did. 6 plates in less than 45 min? That’s not Michelin service. Let me enjoy my meal.

Delicious food, highly recommend. I am vegetarian so cannot speak to the meat dishes my family had, but safe to say that every savory dish that came out of the kitchen was so tasty. Highlights were the whole wheat spaghetti and the swordfish but would happily eat any of those dishes again. Dessert was okay but not the star. The olive oil cake was a bit dry - odd for an oil cake. The chocolate bread pudding was very good. Decaf coffee not good but decaf rarely ever is. I loved the atmosphere and decor of the restaurant and that you can see the kitchen which is the focal point of the front. Service was okay. The restaurant was busy, with many people outside on a chilly night to experience this food. Not the cheapest dishes but thought everything was reasonably priced and decent portions for

The food was delicious, just right for lunch, the waitress was lovely and attentive, and the ambience was great. And for two older women, it wasn't too noisy as we sat in one of the booth. Highly recommended! BTW, we had the fish tacos and the potato Crosti.