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| - Please note. This is 3.5 stars as Yelp doesn't offer half star-rating (really Yelp? in 2017?).
Found this place out from BlogTO, so went with a couple of friends. My review will be all over the place as you read further down.
This place is alright. I would come back, but I would say that they need work with their wait staff, either they're really short-staffed, or better organization perhaps.... And it kills me to say this because the food that they serve is actually really good.
Called for reservation, had no issue, was 5 minutes late, but was seated right away. In terms of service, I think once we were seated, no one approached us until we had to flag someone down to start ordering. When we ordered, I asked if we could have 3 separate bills divided, she complied but then came back and said..."you might need to tell the waiter who's getting your bill, to make it happen, just in case". I found that was kind of weird, but I wasn't too bothered by it, but it kind of felt like that she was taking orders from a table that didn't belong to her. *shrug* No biggie.
The more concerning part of being there was more on the wait time as they took...really long to get our food, like I think we waited anywhere between 45 minutes-1 hour. And I could have sworn that I saw tables who came later than we did, and getting their food served before us. On top of that, we didn't get our 3 dishes at the same time. Thankfully my friends and I were sharing everything, so it wasn't a huge deal, but it just doesn't bode well service wise.
Now the food. Hot damn. If their service could match the food they put out, I'd come way more frequently. Also the prices are reasonable too. The most expensive dish that we bought came in at around $18.99 (the Black Truffle Carbonara with the poached egg), most generic pasta dishes are typically around that price but the ingredients aren't as...great?. We ordered 3 items, the Carbonara, the 4 cheese pizza (with argula/walnuts) and the yuzu seafood spaghetti.
The rather ironic thing was that the Carbonara (even at its price) was my least fav dish out of the 3. The carbonara was too heavy/rich (still tasted really good), but I thought the seafood spaghetti was amazing. It's a cream-miso based sauce, but the yuzu cuts through richness of the dish and it's really delectable. Seafood is well cooked, and the overall dish looks really bright and visually appealing to eat. I'd gladly order that again. 4-cheese pizza was really good too, nice thin crust, with a fig jam on it and really tasty. Unfortunately because of what we ordered we were way too full for desserts, so while I wasn't crazy about the service, it hasn't deterred me from coming back.
Overall, great food, great prices, shaky service. Oh just fyi, they only accept debit/cash.
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