[sonick]

I recently did the chef's tasting menu at l'abbatoir myself, was pretty solid except I was wildly let down by the main protein course if ribeye. The rest of it was fantastic.

Once every few months I'll find myself on an in office day after work and my wife has her own dinner plans, I'll go treat myself by going to Mackenzie Room and having a full on meal myself at the bar. This time around I was too lazy to go all the way out to Pigeon Park so decided L'abbatoir was closer.

If you can swing it, I highly recommend dining alone at the bar at a nice place, getting to chat with the bartender or other solo diners, you never know who you might meet, it's really fun.

Oftentimes you can even get into a normally really difficult reservation by dropping in solo, because they can just shove you into the corner of the bar and get another cover's worth of sales.