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| - Good God! Who died and made this place Best of 2012! Was there bribery involved? Sigh ...and can i give them 0 stars out of 5? I wish!
We decided to book this for a girl's night out for a 9pm seating, meaning the dinner rush would likely have died off a bit at least part way through our service but it hadn't.
Immediately upon getting seated, we ordered a glass of vino and two cocktails, mine, the Parkdalian tasted a bit like medicine - gross. Anyway, not entirely sure why but it took them 45 minutes just to bring our drinks and not because they realized that our drinks were well overdue but rather because, and note this would be our 1st polite attempt, we flagged to the waitress that desperate in need of our bevies, they were no where to be found. She apologized and brought them over.
Bad first impression, we ordered the cheese plate, something like $5 for a half ounce or something complicated, who knows what a half ounce of cheese looks like?!? And I think some pork belly dish. To avoid any further waste of time we also ordered our entrees, one of us had the Dumplings and the rest of us had some bison dish. Surprise! No appetizers arrived and again we had to flag this and only then did the waitress apologize about losing the ticket or something ... what? Come and ask and we'll tell you again what we ordered.
The cheese was delicious but then again I think St. Lawrence Market has good cheese too ;) And the pork belly or whatever else it is that we ordered left me thinking that it was super fatty and gross ... a good chef can mask the fat with deliciousness and this wasn't the case.
Fairly disappointed at portion size we were already making plans about going to McDonald's, and our entrees arrived. The bison dish was mooshed up slimely and what I would call sort of like ground beef in sheppard's pie and came in a ravioli (no mention of that ravioli) with an overbearing amount of ingredients and what I would called an episode of Iron Chef or Chopped with secret random ingredients gone wrong. The duck dumplings according to my friend were good but really the portion was ridic! Two dumplings in a bowl the size of one similar to miso soup at a Sushi restaurant? Hello McDonald's!
Aside from the dumplings, everything we ordered came with some berry jam and okay maybe this is the aboriginal way but really does it have to be on absolutely everything?!? FML!
Out of principle I didn't want to order dessert but my friend's insisted that we had already sunk this much time into it and that they were still hungry and that dessert would have to be part of the night ... so we ordered two desserts - something similar to an apple pie and a wild rice pudding + coffee.
The coffee arrived immediately - was good but the dessert ... the waitress came and asked "how was dessert" ... are you kidding? What dessert!!!!
I had asked for the chef / owner but she was so frazzled she left that unattended and took care of dessert and the first round of drinks for us and despite that we each spent $60 - which I don't think is acceptable for service or food of this quality. To top it off the kitchen was chatting and preoccupied slacking off vs. attending to the food tickets.
I highly discourage anyone from going here and am disappointed. I don't know if it was just us that got nailed with bad food and horrible service but to give some cred ... the dessert was the best part ... so maybe if you wanna give this a try you go for dessert - the wild rice pudding was delicious.
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