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Here's the lowdown on the place:
The best price option at dinner by far is the fixed-price 3-course "pre-theater" menu. They won't tell you about it, so you gotta know and ask for a special menu. It's $28 for appetizer, entree, and dessert, and you get 3-4 choices for each.
"Here's what we eat before we eat" - when you sit donw, they bring out 4 sauces and Indian flatbread. Sauces varied from visit to visit, you might find one you like, I didn't - the bread, on the other hand, was excellent.
Appetizer-wise, asparagus salad with miso sauce left me dreaming to come back. I did come back, too, only to find out that the lunch version of this salad costs $13 and isn't big enough to feed a cat! But dinner version is great, and sizeable.
White fish, for an entree, was not impressive. Period. But for all entrees they also bring out their "potatoes 3-way" - yams with whipped cream, small boiled potatoes with horseradish sauce, and buttery potatoes Au Gratin. My husband and I nearly fought over the latter :)
Desserts really impressed me: the deconstructed chocolate truffle had a sky-high caramel peak, and the 4 frozen sorbets were so flavourful, I couldn't believe it!
Interestingly, all drinks on the menu cost $3: coffee, iced tea, orange juice... I asked for the reasoning. Turns out, coffee is gourmet, iced tea is hibiscus (really red) with a real-life sugar cane sticking out of it (quite a sight), and juice is fresh-squeezed.
The kitchen also seems to have a variety of plates instead of the typical white set, so your dish will come on something of a surprizing color and shape. I find it entertaining.
With the check, you get some orange-flavoured "thin crust". Great dessert in itself, I think. So, if you're not too hungry, don't order anything but entree there: the bread with sauces and the crust will complement the dinner nicely by themselves.
One thing that never impressed me was the wait staff, but then again - it's not the most expensive place in town, so here is one example of when you get what you pay for.
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