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| - SCARY!!! The food was either so bad or their food safety was in so much question that I only finished 1/3 of my order. Among the worst places we have ever dined.
I believe the actual name is No9 (as in #9), but the "o" is tiny on their signage.
OVERALL
They don't know how to keep hot food hot and cold food cold. Food tasted bland not subtle. Their cuteness is not enough to offset feeling robbed by not being able to eat or regretting eating the food I paid above-average prices for.
HOURS
Why doesn't a cafe have morning hours? Open Noon weekdays and 2pm weekends.
AMBIANCE
Besides the Santa doll that greeted us at the entrance in April, the first thing we noticed in the cafe was the vile, swampy, overwhelming perm solution smell from the salon next door. We think the open door the washroom in back might be a shared area between businesses?
Most of the restaurant has black granite tables and black leather, ornate chairs. One lacquered tree stump table by the front window. White walls. It's all downhill from here. A huge post obstructs the centre of the restaurant. Cob webs in their Provencale crystal chandelier. A dusty faux fireplace. A little shelf of disarrayed Korean board games and a stand of tousled magazines. The Dollar Store Christmas decorations taped on walls and windows clash with decor and hint at the lack of attention to detail.
Behind the counter is filthy, dusty, and disorganized. It looked like a shed where gardening supplies would be kept ---- not a professional foodservice operation.
DRINK
Reviews and their FB website caught our attention because of the creative, unusual beverages: Raining Coffee where cotton candy is clipped to a stand and starts to melt over a cup of coffee and a white robot w/ red heart marshmallow floating on coffee. I thought, how can anyone mess up coffee or tea THAT badly? Well, they did.
They only offer whole milk. No sweeteners offered at the table, so drinks get cold waiting for the overwhelmed, lone server/cashier.
Their beautifully layered, Black Sesame Latte had flavour potential, but they did not heat the glass mug and only heated the milk to just above luke warm.
We were afraid we were going to get food poisoning from their cold Pudding Milk Tea. The cute, long spoon w/ a smiley face on it had dried food bits like it had not been cleaned. So we wondered if they cleaned the glass milk bottle it was served in. The pudding seems to be made with packaged custard mix with a bit of old nutmeg --- which we think gave it the "I can't put my finger on it" curious flavour.
They have options for Kung Fu Tea that are served in playful tea sets that have fun 3-D characters. The clips that hold the cotton candy did not look clean or something that should be used in commercial foodservice.
FOOD
There are next to no English descriptions of food items, but there is Korean.
The Milles Crepes Cakes are edible. Not subtle...but bland. I swear their squishy strawberry crepes are made with a hint of Strawberry Quik mix. Tiny smears of whipped cream between each layer and only one thin layer of shaved strawberries (probably only 1/2 of one strawberry per serving!). Topped with half of a REALLY old shrivled strawberry half. Bleck!
The Sakura mousse cake was beautiful, but inedible. Sakura are Japanese cherry blossoms; there was one salty, brined edible flower place in the center of a thick layer of clear, almost unflavoured gelatin atop the mousse cake. A few layers of broken strawberry mousse sandwiched between boring, dry yellow sponge cake. The mousse had a tinge of acidity, but was near flavourless. After 1.5 bites, I gave up eating it.
Ham crepe was over-cooked and cracked from being folded. Filled with the tiniest amount of grated white cheese (cheddar?), smeared with an egg and a few baby spinach leaves. Somewhat edible. For goodness sake, they specialize in crepes and can't get it right! Baby greens salad is withered and topped with a overly heavy drizzle of out-of-place, thick, Japanese mayo and 3 halved grape tomatoes; INEDIBLE.
The oddly-named Waffle Burger are quarter waffles that sandwich a slice of ham with 1/2 teaspoon of cheese. They went overboard with the mayo on the withered salad and on top/inside the waffle. I had to scrape off all the mayo and not eat the dried out cold ham, but the waffles alone were okay. One over-cooked sunnyside up egg off to the side like the menu states, but not two eggs like their website depicts. No salt offered for the egg, but ketchup pile resting against it and both entrees were dusted with an insane amount of black pepper.
SERVICE
Greeted promptly. Dessert brought before entrees. Entrees brought several minutes apart. Did not even return to notice that most of the food was not eaten. Had to chase her down to pay.
PAYMENT
Cash or debit only.
PARKING
Yonge St. meter parking.
Great, creative ideas, but execution is soooo awful.
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