Sage | Eat, Drink & Unwind — Restaurant in Nelson

We were in Nelson during our anniversary, and given the good reviews, decided to try Sage for a celebratory dinner. It proved to be a bad decision. There were 10 to 12 patrons in the small dining room with one server. The menu offerings were limited and seemed all over the place. We chose the Grilled Caesar Salad, an app of Spicy Tuna Tartare and the Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb. We ordered glasses of wine and waited, and waited. The salad arrived about 25 minutes later. Some interesting flavors at the outset, but you were left with plain Romaine half way through. After another 45 minutes we received our tuna appetizer. The four small wontons were light, but all the other ingredients including more avocado then tuna were so drowned in sesame oil and soy sauce you could discern no other flavors. Finally, almost an hour and half after ordering, the rack of lamb arrived. There were four pieces of lamb, each heavily breaded, apparently pan fried and grossly over cooked. We had requested medium rare and cut into one to find a dull grey. We didn't even try it. We were told that they would remake it for us, but it would take another 45 minutes. We declined. We weren't the only table that evening that sent a main course back to the kitchen. So our anniversary dinner costing over $90 consisted of a salad, four indistinguishable bites of an appetizer, and three glasses of wine - the most disastrous dining experience we've ever had. Our waitress, the only server on the floor, deserves the star, probably more then one. The kitchen earned a big naught. Sadly, it's our opinion you...

We were really excited to treat ourselves to a nice night out but were disappointed. We splurged on a nice bottle of white wine and the waitress told us before serving that it was cold but she just wanted to chill it a little more but it’s was clearly room temperature which really impacts the taste. I wish the waitress hadn’t lied to us because we would have ordered a different bottle had we known. We made a big deal of wanting to follow the recommended wine pairings to the staff but were disappointed to find they were sold out of the only dish that paired with the wine we ordered, I wish we had been told before we ordered the wine what items they were out of. We ended up ordering the charcuterie and were quite disappointed to find it was filled with cheap Grocery store crackers and other grocery store items (eg way too many craisins) and only one kind of cheese. The dessert was nice. The service was also quite slow. If only one or two of these things happened I would never leave a bad review but I felt like we spent a lot of money splurging on a nice night out but we’re met with a series of disappointments that left us feeling like we...

I really enjoyed my dinner experience at Sage. Compelling location at the very walkable edge of downtown, with a fairly sizable outdoor patio one could enjoy in the summer months. Interior is cozy and suitable for a special occasion or romantic meal. Service is highly professional and efficient. The food I had (beet salad appetizer and sous vide pork tenderloin with apples) were both excellent. So too was the BC-grown Malbec that accompanied it - a bit unusual on the face (given the climate difference between the Mendoza and Okanagon valleys), but it was seriously good juice. Loved the ‘acoustic cover’ background music. Wouldn’t classify as a tapas restaurant per se (not Spanish influenced, nor are there an abundance of shareable small plates) but it was excellent food nonetheless. Highly...