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| - I think there should be two types of reviews for South of Temperance - one if you have had a chance to sit out on the patio, and one where you sit indoors. From reading previous reviews, it seems that mediocre food, horrible service and average everything else can be forgiven so long as you were in the patio area. However, with Fall fast approaching (if not here already), a group of friends that my boyfriend and I were meeting chose to sit indoors. And thus, the review of a pretty average, over-hyped restaurant begins.
Intro. Friday nights in any financial district restaurant would be busy, and South of Temperance is no exception. You basically walk into a LARGE, square room with akwardly placed tables all around and a bar area in the middle. Loud. Noisy. Bland. We inadvertenly walked in the entrance by the patio and was immediately told something to the effect of that way. We really couldn't hear so we walked in the direction of the lady's long finger and we found our friends. Amazing! She looked at us and knew who our friends were? Space was extremelyyyy tight - to give you a picture, my friend could not even pull out his chair to sit as the man from the other table basically occupied that space. Unfortunately, he was scum and would not move (and later on in the night, our server told us that he was a regular and was the type of guy who would place his order, than immediately after, follow her to the kitchen and ask if his drink was ready...barf bag please)
Food. The menu items are nothing outstanding - you can get burgers, pasta, french fries, salad etc...Bascially, dishes that you can have anywhere else. And then of course there are the drinks, which this restaurant has an extensive menu for: red and white wine varieties along with beers and hard liqour. I had a 9oz Cab Sauv for 10 bucks along with a cheesy and actually delicious poutine dish that I shared with my boyfriend.
Service was very slow, but I am not going to hold it against our server. It was basically her and another girl serving 50 people on our side of the restaurant. But, our server was still all smiles despite having to run around like mad. Management should have known that Friday nights would be busy so FYI - if you don't mind having no service for long periods of time, then this restaurant is for you. I would suggest you to order all your dishes and drinks at once when your server comes, because after that, you are pretty much on your own.
South of Temperance has attempted to surround itself in a rich veneer, but at the heart of it, this place is really nothing special. It basically is a dressed up watering hole for the men and women in suits of downtown's fianance and miscellaenous crew. But, that's what they like and I get it...sometimes you want to go somewhere that's not a pub. Sometimes, you just want to flaunt your wealth or the appearance of wealth and this place allows you to do that.
In my opinion, I would not come out of my way to eat here or even have drinks. But then again, I didn't get a chance to try the patio and perhaps if I had met my friends in the summer, my review would be much different. We were a group of 8, but I paid for 3 of my friends so I will leave it to you to judge the dollar value, but 1 red wine, 1 poutine, and 4 Scotch came out to $70 excluding tips.
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