I came to Dailo with high expectations after hearing great things and I was sorely disappointed.
We got the chef choice tasting menu for $55 a person.
Service and attention to detail was lacking. We were missing small serving spoons on some condiments, one of our dishes came in a clearly chipped dish, and they missed cleaning our table between courses.
The tapas food was a mix of stars depending on the dish. We had:
- Watermelon sorbet in sake- 4 stars - very refreshing
- crispy octopus taco - 5 stars
- fried watermelon - 3 stars - the pieces were too big making the watermelon overpowering
- Ontario pea dumplings - 4 stars- lovely truffle taste
- egg net salad - 4 stars - refreshing and light
- seared Napa cabbage - 2 stars - not enjoyable
- seasonal sisig - 2 stars - just not wow
- truffle fried rice - 3 stars
- seasonal quail - 1 star - this was the feature large dish and was the most disappointing. The seasoning had not penetrated into the meat so the quail tasted unsalted and bland. The seasonal vegetables around it did not bring additional flavour so the dish was unenjoyable and we ate only 1/3 of it.
- desert sorbet - 4 stars - great way to end a meal.
With respect to the quail dish, they noted we did not eat it. We mentioned it wasn't a good dish and that we did not want to eat it or take it home and they moved on as though it was a normal occurrence.
Another strange experience was that for a $150 meal for 2 people they did not want to accept Amex. I get it for a grocery store but for this ticket price I expected they could cover the higher interchange fee.
Overall we came out disappointed with our experience and our meal.