My mom and I went to Pincette for Happening Gourmand (March 19th, 2026), and also to celebrate her birthday. She and I are in agreement: this was the worst meal we have ever had at a restaurant. Emphasis on the 'ever'. For our entrées, we both chose the fried shrimp with wasabi sour cream sauce, which was alright. For our mains, she chose the lobster thermidor (extra 12$ charge) which came with root vegetables. The (half) lobster was rubbery, and the root vegetables (potato and rutabaga, I think) were merely boiled, and had quite literally zero seasoning - in other words, she was served 71$ hospital food. I chose the pan-seared striped bass, which sat on a carrot-ginger coulis with candied pears, and topped with grenobloise sauce. ...Well. The grenobloise sauce was the only part of the dish that I can say anything positive about. The fish was not just underseasoned, no; it had 0 seasoning, and worse, tasted rather rancid (the last bite I dared to take resulted in pungent fish juice assaulting my taste buds to the point I was forced to leave the dish unfinished, until the waiter wordlessly cleared our table (he had probably seen my grimace)), like the fish sat defrosting in the fridge for a week after it spent a decade in the freezer before the chef boiled it then pan-fried it to give the skin a modicum of crispiness. The carrot-ginger coulis also tasted off, in a way I can't quite describe other than that it could not have been fresh. Oh, and did I forget to mention how tiny the portions were? I understand rent in the Old Port is expensive, but this was ridiculous considering what we paid. Ultimately, we left hungry and deeply unhappy, until we drove to McDonald's. Their 5$ trio deal and blueberry cheesecake pie cheered us right up. This is my very first Google review (because I'm normally too lazy for this sort of thing), but after wasting 224$ of my hard-earned money on this terrible meal, I'm feeling too angry not to say anything. The cocktails we got were fabulous, though. We happily spent 19$ a pop on those!
