Aberfoyle Mill Restaurant Review

My mom had a birthday recently so to celebrate we went to Aberfoyle Mill for dinner.  I wasn't too thrilled about the idea at first because Aberfoyle seemed really far.  However, my parents had been there before and LOVE this place so it was only fitting that we had dinner there.  I was pleasantly surprised that it took only 45 minutes to get there from my parents' house in Mississauga.  Which is still a long way to drive for dinner, but I expected longer.  It was well worth the drive.  This restaurant is fabulous!  It's a very charming restaurant with authentic antiques, most of them hanging from the ceiling.  It's one of the largest personal collections of Canadiana in the country.  There is a beautiful, large fireplace in the restaurant but someone else already reserved the table next to it so we couldn't sit there.  After we were all seated, I got up to ask the hostess to put a candle in my mom's dessert, which the waiter did.  It was a little something extra.  Our waiter was awesome and we really enjoyed talking with him.  He was very knowledgeable about wines and made good recommendations because our drinks went well with our meals.  For my appetizer, I ordered the spinach salad with baked Monforte feta, pecans, roasted red peppers and Niagara cranberry plum vinaigrette.  Absolutely one of the best salads I've ever had.  Mmm!  Then I had the bow-tie pasta with butter seared beef tips, roasted garlic, spinach and a Gorgonzola cheese sauce.  It usually comes with mushrooms but I asked for none.  I am not a fan of blue cheese and I'm also not a cheese expert so I had no idea that Gorgonzola cheese was blue cheese.  The dish was excellent and it had a very unique flavour.  I had to get a doggy bag (as usual) and ate the rest for lunch at work the next day.  It actually tasted better on day 2.  Amazing dish, but knowing now what Gorgonzola cheese is, I won't order it again, even though it was good.  Really good.  For dessert I ordered chocolate cake with raspberry sauce and it was good, although I would have preferred milk chocolate over dark chocolate.  My brother and dad ordered a white chocolate cheesecake and it looked marvelous.  This restaurant is excellent and I recommend it.  I can see what my parents meant every time they talked about it.  The food is top notch and a lot of their dishes have a unique flavour.  For 5 people, the cost of dinner was almost $400.00.  
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