On May 25th, 2024, I was celebrating my birthday at L’Oree Du Bois in Old Chelsea. I hadn’t been there in approximately 20 years and was looking forward to a “special dinner”. It turned out to be a “VERY” special dinner. I was with two friends, Susana and Omar . The men wore jackets and the lady was dressed very well. We arrived at 7:30 for dinner. The reservation was in place and we were shown to our table. We were given our menus by the receptionist and the bus boy poured glasses of water. Then the evening started the decline. Nothing happened for approx.. 15 minutes after we were seated. I had to ask the busboy to send a waitress/waiter to our table. The busboy finally poured glasses of water. She arrived and explained the menu. I said that we would need a few minutes to decide and asked her to return in 5 minutes. Susana asked for bread, because we were a bit hungry. After two more requests for bread and a long waiting period, the bread finally arrived. The server finally arrived and I chose a respectable Valpolicella from the wine list. The server came back, after a lengthy period, to say that it was not in stock and that I had to choose another from the list. If it’s not available, why is it still on the wine list? I chose another Italian red wine. Then, it was time to order. We ordered appetizers and a main course. When the appetizers arrived, they were very poor in quality. For example, I had the mushroom sauce in puff pastry. There was a tiny puff pastry square, smothered in a milky Campbell Soup like mushroom sauce. Not very tasty. A foreboding of what was to come. For the main courses, we had ordered venison, fish and filet mignon. After a very long wait, the filet mignon was placed in front of Susana. The other entrees were not to be seen. So here she is, sitting with the food in front of her, waiting for our dishes. Finally Omar and my entree arrived. Again, after a very lengthy period. The venison was like a hockey puck and the fish was a bony pitiful filet, smothered in the same Campbell’s watery mushroom soup sauce. Susana sliced into the filet mignon, finally, and it was raw. She had ordered rare; not raw. The filet mignon was returned to the kitchen, to be cooked a bit more and we waited. Omar and I had to eat our food, because approx. 15 minutes later, the filet mignon had still not showed up. The busboy came to the table and asked if he could clear the dishes. I was a bit angry and asked him how he could clear the dishes, when the lady hadn’t even received her entree? He backed away. Finally the Filet Mignon was delivered to the table in “charred” condition. Not edible. By this time, I had reached my end. I went to the parking lot to have some air and when I returned, there were 5 servers chatting at the front desk. I told them that this was the worst dinner that I have experienced in many years and that I wanted to speak to the manager. After I was seated, our server came over to the table and said that she was the manager. I found that hard to believe. I told her that the service and the quality of the food was terrible and that I was so disappointed. She said that no one else in the restaurant had complained and they all had complimented their meals. I said that I found that hard to believe. At that point a women, in a uniform, appeared on the scene and said that she was canceling the check, but that we had to leave immediately. We were asked to leave the restaurant! This has never happened to me in my life! We left. Going home hungry and very disappointed. Never to return, again. This restaurant used be one of the finest in the Ottawa Region. Now it is just something to be avoided.