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| - So I made the mistake of coming here again for my husband's birthday...
I saw they had lots of reviews online (through inviting Elite Yelp members for a free meal and asking them to review it, I'm sure for this day they made sure they were on point but my review is for a typical Saturday night) and I saw they had something cool called a "Meat Head Platter", here's what went down
-made a reservation still had to wait 10 minutes for them to set-up a table
-received plates for my apps and the plates had small pieces of melted cheese on it! I called the waitress and before I even said anything she said "new plates?" and I said "yes please", she then said "oh I triple checked these" when i showed her the cheese she laughed hysterically and said "my bad", I did not find dirty dishes funny...
-raspberry mojito ($6.50) was good but definitely not worth the $ and it comes in such a small glass
-got the app platter ($29), burgers were crazy dry, wings had literally drops of sauce on it and were also dry, the was no filling in the jalapeno poppers, there was some melted cheese on the board so I'm guessing it spilled out?, the artichoke dip had melted cheese on top and the inside of the dip was ice cold, the mac and cheese bites were crunchy but the macaroni inside had no flavour or cheese
-got the meat head platter ($45), had the same dry wings on it, coleslaw was cut very large and it was super hard to eat, I asked for my steak well done (I do this at Kara Mia and it is super juicy) and it tasted like a towel it was so chewy hard and dry, they charged me an extra $1 for a melted butter sauce which I was okay with but then it was only filled about 1/4 of the container and the butter was not melted (when i asked for more sauce for the wings which was free it was filled to the top) , pulled brisket baked potato was pretty good as the potato had green onions and cheese in it however the mashed potatoe that came with the fried quarter chicken tasted like Costco instant mash with no salt/pepper (it was literally all white), the only thing was actually worth it was the beef rib which was excellent and what I would expect from a "Modern Halal" restaurant like this, I didn't even try the fried chicken cause I was so disappointed
-In the middle of our meal cause everything was so dry I ordered a coke, when were ready to pay I noticed we didn't get the coke then suddenly a different waiter came with it and I said I didn't want it cause we were finished eating, he looked upset and said "oh well it took long because I ran out of coke and I ran to Shoppers Drug Mart" like WHAT??!! Why would he even tell me that, how do you run out of coke, and Black Ox is supposed to be some high class place, no high class restaurant would tell their customer I ran to shoppers to get you a coke, that was just ridiculous
-Overall the meal for 2 costed me $100, if I went to Affy's my 2 mains, mocktail and dessert (no apps cause portions are larger) would have costed me $50
-I think they focus to much on the ambiance (fancy lights/background music) and food presentation rather than quality of food for cost, customer service and basic functions (having drinks stocked, having clean dishes), I would rather eat something that tastes good in a clean plate that eat something horrible on some fancy wooden plank
-I can think of 10 alternatives of the top of my head in the GTA and downtown TO: Affy's, Crave, Kara Mia, Los Chicos, Restoran Malaysia, Nando's, Tandoori Time, Watan Kabob, Burger Factory, Cluck Clucks
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