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| - Highly disappointing considering the prestige of the Drake Hotel in Toronto.
This is a review on food alone
To be fair, there are other accommodations to this hotel such as daily and weekly events, the bar and a patio that viewers may want to look into
On food alone however, I don't recommend spending your time and money here for a meal when Toronto has so much more to offer else where
I came with my partner on a Friday evening. The waitress sat us down in between 4 other people, when you can clearly see room for seating elsewhere. It's cool, I'll let that slide
We ordered a dozen oysters, sashimi salad, soup of the day, clam chowder, the rotisserie chicken, artichoke dish and the pork belly roll
The oysters were delicious! Probably the best part of the meal only. Sashimi salad was weak; not fresh at all. Soup of the day was mediocre and the clam chowder is the size of a Tim hortons chicken noodle soup ...... Lame. The chicken was OK, I did not enjoy the strong alcohol taste to the chicken
- it could have been cooked soMe more to avoid this. Artichoke dish was pointless and the pork belly roll was nothing special.
Portions are ridiculously small, over priced -- I didn't even get full! And the bill was $200.00 what ...?
I could have went to Canoe. Disappointing
Drinks were also mediocre (Caesar and a 'woman under the influence') but quite the pretty penny
Brownie points for the ambience but that's typical toronto vibes.
Would not recommend. It is now squarely on the write off list, in terms of food
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