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| - Living in close proximity to the Manulife Center mall, I've enjoyed many so-so meals at The Bloor Street Diner. I say 'enjoyed' because the location is great, right inside the glamorous Manulife mall - and the restaurant does have a nice ambiance. In truth, however, the food is only 'so-so. At a recent lunch, for instance, my clam chowder was served lukewarm, and entirely lacked the heartiness you would expect of the dish. My beet and carrot salad, on the other hand, was lovely. The romaine lettuce was crisp and fresh, and the dressing tangy but minimal, so as not to interfere with the salad's generous topping of crumbled blue cheese. Delicious. If only I could say as much for my companion's limp and undercooked, deep fried calamari. What a travesty! Finally, a shared dessert of Nespresso Creme Brulee was unobjectionable, which is kind of how it goes at the Diner: consistently uneven, this always busy restaurant benefits perhaps too much from its captive audience of building residents and denizens of the Manulife mall.
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