Multiple Choice; a cocktail test

You have to love a restaurant that takes cocktails so seriously that the
drinks menu is pages long.

Bring your reading glasses to Lucid
Cocktail Kitchen, because youll want to consider your choice
carefully among the multiple sour, sweet savoury and bitter options laid
out for each liquor. The "Boulevard Sour" ($14), a beyond-smooth
concoction of bourbon, Campari and sweet vermouth blended with lime and
egg white and topped with Angostura bitters was a fine starter for my
meal of pumpkin and goat cheese stuffed pasta garnished with pea shoots
($19) and expertly sautéed winter greens ($5).

My dining partner enjoyed two startersgame tartar ($14) and a spinach
herb salad with blue cheese ($9)and we somehow polished off fresh-baked
bread and butter on top of that.

I can’t remember the last time I cleaned my plate so thoroughly. Kat
Tancock

Lucid Cocktail and Kitchen, 571 Queen St. W., Toronto, 416-361-6154, www.lucidck.com