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| - Ok, so firstly, I find it strange that it's called a cafe at the same time as a restaurant, bar and a lounge. They do sorta cater to all aspects, but not so much a cafe. This is besides the point, but misleading for first time customers trying to search up info on this place.
Their place is notably tight in terms of spacing (to be expected when you're in Toronto). The ambiance was nice, definitely casual but also good for the couple. I believe they had a plaque for award of being best first date restaurant in 2011.
Anyways, so I went with a group of 10 people and we had reserved seating. We were pretty late, so by the time we got there they had reserved an area for about 12 people, not sure if they had given up our priority or the other group had reserved before we did. Anyways, the other group was also late, and none had shown up. All of us had shown up, and were patiently waiting bar side (because they had no where else to wait), and despite waiting for 45 minutes, we were not given priority over the group who was even worst than us (a no show). This was quite frustrating, but the bar server was nice enough to offer us menus/drinks if we wanted them.
Finally got seated and ordered. I got the sirloin steak for $19 (b4 taxes), and it was one of the better steaks I've had in a while. It was cooked just right as per my preference and the steak was fairly big for the not too expensive price. Also ordered a martini cocktail and it was great tasting, although maybe missing a bit of the alcohol taste. Other friends ordered things like seafood linguine/chicken penne, salmon pizza, which looked tasty as well.
Would definitely go again, but reason why its a 3 star and not 4 star is:
-bread was served VERY late (1 min b4 entrees came), not warm, and no butter knives given
-waitress was good but also bad (she had the right attitude and served well but wasn't careful as she had hit one of my friends accidentally with a wine chiller bucket with wine inside)
-reservation system could be better
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