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UPDATE: This restaurant has closed.

marc | kitchen

40 Adeline St., 613-695-9739, marckitchen.ca

Open: Monday to Wednesday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday and Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 5 to 9 p.m., closed Sunday

Prices: most lunch items $17, appetizers $15, mains $24 to $30

Access: steps to front door

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If Marc Behiels were a luckier chef-restaurateur, he would have thrown out that citrus cornmeal cake before a shockingly substandard piece of it arrived at my table.

Instead, at marc | kitchen in Little Italy, the finishing touch on my so-so lunch earlier this month was a dessert with several spots of mould on its underside. I don’t normally flip my desserts over and inspect them, but it seemed like the right move after I detected some of that green stuff on my cutlery and fortunately stopped short of eating it.

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Here’s how Behiels handled the culinary crisis. He apologized, called the oversight unacceptable, told staff to throw out the rest of the cake, and comped the whole lunch for me and my friend.