My experience as a fine dining newbie:

Entering the restaurant - The staff are friendly and helpful and address you immediately. The decor is modern and tasteful and everywhere you look things are neat, tidy, and clean. While waiting in the lobby (only a minute or two) to be seated every staff member that walks by gives you a friendly greeting.

Sitting down - You are lead to your table, and as you prepare to sit down the host makes sure your chair is turned so that you can sit easily. Once seated a waiter comes by and asks if you have any allergies and then almost immediately the food starts.

The food - Within a few minutes of being seated we were treated with our first amuse-bouche. Being new to this we were surprised as we had not yet specified which menu we wanted but we were pleased nonetheless. The first plate consisted of 3 items for my wife and I. A spoon with roasted cauliflower, black current and some other toppings, a fig square, and a small crispy bite filled with pesto. Everything tasted wonderful and it was a good start to our lunch. Next the sommelier came by to ask about our wine choices. Seeing as we both love good wine, but don't yet know much about it, we asked him to surprise us. Next we were served a broccoli tart next to a lemon and dill sorbet. The interesting combination was something we would've never thought of but was the perfect marriage of flavours. Next we finally given the menu and settled on the lunch selection. Before our food came we were served one final hors d’œuvre, consisting of beef carpaccio wrapped around some sort of mushroom pâté. Im not sure why raw meat is such a popular dish in fine dining circles because it wasn't to my liking. This is purely personal though and the flavour was still pleasant (I just couldn't handle the texture). Our first wine came next as we asked for it with the food, and it was a fruity white, that was not too sweet. It was organic and contained low sulphites and generally tasted excellent. None of the wine I have tried to date has really compared to it. Next we were served our appetizer which was cured pork with apricot and red onion jam, along with new potatoes and topped with bite size potato croustillant (like a home made potato chip). It was all delicious and every element went perfectly together. The salty porc and the sour apricots provided a nice balance for the sweet jam and the sharp onion. Our red wine was served for the next part of our meal and it was an excellent and flavourful but not to overpowering. Next we had our main dishes of veal liver for me and arctic char for my wife. Both dishes were excellent and I never would've guessed that I'd eat liver and enjoy it. The fish was excellent according to my wife and both of us cleaned our plates. For dessert we had white peaches on an almond tart, next to some sugar cups filed with peach jam and almond mousse. This was our favorite part of the meal as the almonds and peach flavours satisfied our palettes. We finished with coffee and tea and they brought out yet some more small desserts. Each of us got a pistachio macaron, a small tart, a homemade marshmallow and a small cookie. Overall the food was absolutely excellent.