They have a sister restaurant called Colborne Lane, located on Colborne Lane, a few blocks away. For my girl Miah's birthday, a group of 8 of us went there for dinner and drinks.
None of us had ever been there before and it was Miah, myself and 6 burly men.
Kultura considers themselves to be Asian-Fusion with a tapas style menu at very expen$ive price$. It is a beautiful space, and I'm sure that's where most of our money is going towards. The rent. Lots of brick and lit pillared candles gave it a really romantic and cozy atmosphere. Once we were seated, the waiter proceeded to tell us that for a group of 8, we should narrow down the menu to 5 different dishes and order 5 of each of them. Glancing quickly at the cost of each entree, I nearly had a heart attack after doing the multiplication of 5. Since I'm usually asked to take the reigns at a dinner party, I went down the list, picked the tastiest (keeping the price in mind) entrees and multiplied them by 3, not 5, to feed our stomachs, with the notion that if we were still hungry, we could always order more. Makes sense, right? Right... So, what did we order and was it memorable? We had chicken samosas, beef tartare that was wrapped in something crispy, spicy tuna roll (that had no rice or resemblance of sushi except for the fact that it was "rolled" up), mushroom orecchiette, butternut risotto, and I feel like we had one more thing, but it escapes me right now...we also had dessert - a few orders of doughnut holes covered in vanilla sugar with caramel sauce and hot fudge to dip it in, a claufouti (that had eggplant tasting like apples) and some decadent chocolate dessert that had salted caramel in the center. (On a totally random side note, I think salted caramel is super trendy right now and I'm really enjoying it!) Out of the entrees, I enjoyed my pinot grigio by the glass that cost $12 whoppers. Oh, woops, sorry, that's not food. Ok, seriously, I really enjoyed the chicken samosas and the mushroom orecchiette. The dessert disappointed me because as someone at the table put it - the doughnut holes just reminded them of Timmy's (aka: Tim Hortons). The caramel sauce was not thick and dense. It was as fluid as water and had no taste. The fudge was good, but nothing special. The chocolate cake with licorice ice cream was yummy. And the claufouti was interesting, but again, to make eggplant taste like apple bits is no easy task, but it was still nothing to write home about. For a party of 8 of us, for just the food, we spent $50 to $55 each. Drinks were calculated individually. I have to say, I loved the space, the atmosphere, but mainly the company I was with. If you're wondering if I'd ever go back there for food again, I would, but only if I was on a diet and expected to not each much for a lot of money. Fortunately, I don't diet.
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