There’s No Place Like Home Tasting Room

Dan    Calgary & Area, Restaurants     awesome, calgary, eating out, local, sharing, tapas

I may not be quite as lucky to be able to click my heels (and, let’s be clear, by heels I mean the back part of my feet, not ladies’ heels…) to make my way to Home Tasting Room on Stephen Ave, Calgary, Alberta, but I’ll settle for having to walk a few blocks. I was invited out for dinner last week by a couple of ladies with impeccable taste to try out this restaurant for the first time.

We were warmly greeted by the general manager and sat down in view of their open kitchen. Perfect. The place definitely has a nice ambiance, so it gets a thumbs up for a great date spot! Executive Chef Geoff Rogers hits a home-run with just about every dish that we order. In a group of 4, we were all about sharing tonight, so we opted to order off of their Tastings Menu.

We went for their ricotta gnocchi, bay scallops, bison tartar, roasted beet salad and some oysters (always a nice start to an evening).

My favourite of the aforementioned was, hands down, the bison tartar. What can I say? I’m a sucker for a good tartar, and it was served in a jar, and that kind of rhymed. Enough said!

The gnocchi was rich and delicious (on a side note, I have not quite mastered the art of home-made gnocchi, so always appreciate those little guys when they’re done well in a restaurant!), and you can’t really go wrong with red swiss chard sauteed, then topped with some parmesan oil now can you?

For dessert, we unanimously decided on their home-made donuts with coffee. They were fresh and filled with chocolate, so, of course, there were no complaints from anyone at the table. After dessert, we finished up our wine (them) and gin martinis (me) then headed out into the cold arms of winter. All-round great experience. Actually, I recommended it for a friend’s birthday dinner, so I’ll be back for another dinner very soon!

When I go here again maybe I’ll consider it my ‘second home’ ?

Ok…bad joke…

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