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| - I had two hours free during the busiest week of my life, a company car that overruled every pesky parking metre of the over gentrified downtown streets--which had me laughing hard at those odious parking enforcement jackals, and I was dressed to the nines with the taxpayers' money to fill my belly.
So where shall I lunch?
The only acknowledgement of existence I had of this place was once spotting a television host in here during my first visit to Queen Street through the window. It looks posh enough from the exterior, but far too contemporary for my tastes. But so it goes, I was alone..and I wanted to park my vehicle at a busy place during the weekday and have the parking assholes unable to exercise their very small..minuscule authority.
The restaurant was nearly empty, and it boggles the mind why the Maitre'D sat me by the counter in the very front of the house. The décor seemed cheap. Like IKEA cheap. I figured it was an Asian eatery, but had no idea it was Thai. One should understand, the word "Thai" in North America for restaurants is really just a substitute for 'lacking in variety'. I've never been to a 'Thai' restaurant on this continent where the menu was very interesting. I would be angry if I were from Thailand and had my rich Culture reduced to shrimp-noodles and fried-rice. They also had dim sum here...this can't be right?
The staff here were fairly sharply dressed, well groomed, young, and all appeared to be UofT students. Not in an unprofessional way or anything. They were just young. They seemed to be occupied the entire time, with only four tables in the whole restaurant? What were they doing?
Despite the location, EAST! was rather spacious, well lit, clean, and I didn't have to wait very long for my food to arrive. Since I had all this free time, I figured I'd order a good portion. But when I saw the prices for the dim sum I had to mentally count the cash I had on me. $4.00 for four pieces of dumplings? Were they steaming it in truffles?!
Everything else was reasonably priced, but the dim sum was just offensive. Chinatown is not a block away, where's the justification for this pretension?
I ordered the most expensive dim sum dish to see what is so special about the siu mai here to be priced at $1.00 each. Couldn't tell ya!
I also got this fried rice pyramid thing with shrimps I think. What is the significance of pyramids with regards to Thailand? Springs roll, $5.00 for two. Why don't you just point a gun to head?
The prices for what go as 'snacks' in actual Asia are held to the level of ransom demands in this restaurant! These spring rolls better promise to love me long time afterwards.
The food just isn't very good, and the wait staff weren't very engaging. The décor gave off the vibe as if this were some kind of a uptown karaoke bar, and the location is just all wrong for what they're selling. I don't buy it. But of course I did, because my bill came. I got out of there within an hour, and headed back to my hotel with an hour to spare...so I can do nothing.
EAST!
No.
East Coast maybe.
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