Ottawa Foodies

I went to Foundation with a friend not long after the restaurant first opened. Although the restaurant was empty save for two people out on the patio, the service was painfully slow. That could have been forgiven had the cheese fondue we ordered been even close to worth its price. The cheese was grainy, watery, and salty. Anyone who's ever had real fondue before would have been insulted- hell, anybody who has bloody well eaten melted cheese before would have been upset. Fondue is simple. cheese, wine, kirsch, cornstarch, a little heat. How in the hell a restaurant can charge what they do and somehow ruin such a simple meal is beyond my comprehension. Perhaps they should have spent a little less on decor and snob appeal and a little more on a trained chef and decent ingredients.