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| - My husband and I treated a small group of family here for a special event and spent well over $400 for dinner. My 19 month old daughter was also present.
First - just for any parents of young children planning to dine here: It's incorrect to say this is a family-friendly restaurant or 'good for kids' when basic amenities like a change table are not available. Having high chairs isn't enough to warrant that claim. I was forced to change my daughter in our car across the street in 0 degree weather.
The ambiance is ok, I guess, for a Persian restaurant attempting to stand out from other take-out ethnic restaurants in the GTA. Our waitress was polite and well-informed, although she was only really attentive when she was trying to get us to buy the overly-expensive group platters and then seemed to disappear when I was trying to figure out why we had all ordered promptly yet waited over 45 minutes for our meals. It was busy, granted, so we didn't say anything, but there were people (with five to six people in their parties as well) that came after us, were seated, and got their appetizers AND entrees before us.
The food was not bad, as far as Persian food goes, I guess. Just dump a lot of butter on the rice and kebabs and you're good to go. I was surprised a bit by the things we got charged for - for example, flat water that was part of the table. What high-end restaurant charges customers for flat water? It was misleading and I feel like for a place where we were clearly going to spend so much money, it makes it seem sort of cheap and off-putting.
From my seat at my table, I also noticed a tupperware container sitting on a shelf near the kitchen entrance filled with what looked like boiled hot dogs the entire night. Totally random - but why was there a container full of hot dogs out there the whole time? LOL It just confused me.
Staff continuously went back and forth from the kitchen and the bar area with more Dollar Store tupperware filled with sliced salad ingredients...again, just looks off and such a stark contrast against the classy feel they are clearly aiming for.
I think this is one of those unjustifiably expensive ethnic restaurants that is not worth the hype. If you're not familiar with Persian/Iranian food and don't mind long wait times, maybe you'll enjoy it. Otherwise, skip this wannabe pretentious stuff and just find a good Afghan kebab place where your belly will tell you how worth it was.
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