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| - Never would I have thought I would find a great restaurant there. It's just so hidden and non descript. Could it be? OMG It's a hidden gem!!! I love those!
Location:
It's in Thornhill in a plaza with a Food Basics and Shoppers Drug Mart
It's on the north east corner of Yonge Street and Royal Orchard Boulevard.
Getting there:
Easy to get to, it's also a VIVA stop. If you are coming from the north on Yonge you get to turn left at a set of lights so no left turn stress. Winning.
Parking:
Lots of parking because of the grocery store. Yay no parking stress, go ahead and drive yourself there my friend. :) Or drive your friends so you can pay them back for driving to all the high parking stress locations!
First impressions:
When you walk in you are met with a warm wall of delicious smells. Garlic prevails. Thoughts : Immediate need for garlic bread!! It's small foyer, there a room with a coat check, we naturally didn't notice until we left. I'm observant like that. :)
Decor:
The restaurant is nice, old fashioned Italian, like you see in the movies. comfortable and welcoming. Plush cushions, old Italian men waiters, white table cloths, lower ( but not too low) lighting. I like it.
The Crowd:
We came at 7 pm on a Saturday evening and the place was packed. A predominately older crowd, we were the youngest in the place, and the largest party here were 10 of us, there were mostly groups of four.
Seating:
We sat at a big table at the front of the restaurant. I sat facing the outside window. It was a booth/chair hybrid. It was very comfortable.
Menu:
Naturally scoped out the menu online before I came. Lots of choices, apps, pasta, risotto, gnocchi, meat dishes. Not sure if its changed online but they also have a 4 course Prix fixe menu. All of us but one got that
Bruschetta, soup or salad, list of entrees, and tiramisu or spumoni.
I got the house salad ( the seafood chowder looked amazing), the best seafood risotto ever, and spumoni.
The risotto had a lot of seafood. It was like they took an order of mussels and calamari and added it to an order of risotto. Not a lot of shrimp, because they were big and juicy. :) so much great food. I ate it all, my belly was bursting.
Spumoni was a giant sundae with fruit. Ate that too.
Delicious too. So basically everything was awesome!
Bruschetta was delicious. My friend got the mushroom Bruschetta and I got to try it. Was wonderful.
Staff:
He was nice.
Conclusion:
Two big thumbs up. Will be back 100%
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