Rachel D.
Yelp
I would like to start by saying that the staff were all very kind, very professional, and *mostly* attentive. Sort of.
Now moving on ...
My husband and I were in Toronto for the weekend and made a late reservation here (8:30pm) to celebrate my birthday.
Pro: we were seated right away.
Con: the whole restaurant is quite large and was wide open with scattered tables of patrons, and they chose to sit us in a back room area .... in the middle of a corporate business dinner.
Yes, as in the entire small semi-private room was filled with roughly 30+ business people all working for the same company, there together on a conference of some sort.
And then there was us ... placed in the middle of it.
Had we realized this sooner we would have asked to be moved to a different area. But we didn't, so we remained in the middle of their business dinner, which at one point included the CEO apologizing to us as he then very seriously addressed the room filled with his team ... and us.
So that was weird AF.
Moving on ...
We ordered two cocktails, a charcuterie board app, lobster linguini and the bone-in ribeye (for a cool $95 CAD plus OF COURSE an additional a la carte side, because for $95 you only get the meat).
We also planned to order some red wine with dinner but that never actually happened because no one ever asked if we wanted anything else to drink beyond that first order.
They were very attentive with refilling our water though.
So anyway ... The charcuterie board was fine. Nothing overly unique or amazing, but satisfying. The pasta was good. No complaints. The ribeye ... well ...
The $95 BONE-IN ribeye was a 1" thick boneless piece of under-seasoned steak. We've had far better at an Outback Steakhouse. I'm being 100% serious.
We address this bonelessness as well as the thickness (or lack there of) with one of our servers (we had a few different servers which was interesting). The server said (literally), "yes, you are correct. It is supposed to be a bone-in ribeye. They are always bone-in. Looks like yours doesn't have a bone I guess." And then she smiled and walked away and that was that.
So by this time, it's about 10pm and we're not only exhausted but also disappointed.
After we finished our meals, we just sat there waiting around in an empty area of the restaurant (the business dinner had since left). Servers walked past, but no one stopped at our table to say anything, as if we had left with the business meeting or something.
After 15 minutes of just sitting there, one of the servers brought over new silverware. We said, "oh, no dessert thank you we're ready for the check". Well, the restaurant knew it was my birthday, (open table), and the server said they were preparing a little something (very nice of them) but I'll be honest, by 10:15pm we were more than ready to get out of there, but we didn't want to be rude so we of course stayed.
Pro: they brought us two absolutely beautiful and delicious gourmet desserts
Cons: it took ANOTHER 15 minutes of waiting around in a quiet empty restaurant for them to be delivered to the table.
Not only was I exhausted by this point but we were so tired from just sitting there waiting (for now 30 minutes) that we truly didn't enjoy the dessert all that much. Don't get me wrong ... was very good. But it just wasn't enough to overcome all of the other missteps.
Looking for a summary? Here you go: Would I go here again? Absolutely not. Should YOU go here? Do whatever you want but there are without a doubt DOZENS of much better restaurants in that city to spend your time and money at.