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| - During a weekend trip to Toronto, we surprised a friend of mine who works on Front Street and afterward headed to Spring Rolls for lunch. They've recently (so the server told me) added some lunch specials - basically soup/appetizer/main combos for about $14. I had some tom yum soup, shrimp dumplings, and shrimp satay pad thai. My wife didn't go for the special, instead choosing black bean chicken with noodels (ho fun, I think it was called).
So, the food - outstanding all around. Promptly served, piping hot, and I can say without hesitation that I have never had such a great pad thai, and it came with 10 massive shrimps... no shortchanging there. The tom yum was a small serving, very sweet and spicy as it should be, and shrimp dumplings were also great.
My wife's meal was MASSIVE. Like, unfinishably large, especially after she had gyoza-like dumplings from the dim sum menu (once the rather snotty server lectured her a little on dim sum). It was also very, very tasty.
So, you'd think I'd have four stars for them. I don't, and here's why. The service was miserable. Between the slightly pretentious server at first and the fact that it was like pulling teeth to get some more water (it was lunch, and I'd just got off a plane), I just wasn't amued. Those are relatively basic things they were doing wrong.
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