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| - All the chairs in this restaurant are leather couches. The tables are low, like the kind you'd have in your family room at home. To top it all off, the booth we got during our visit was accompanied by a 50" TV that we could set to whatever channel we want. Pretty cool, right?
Old School is a bar that looks designed to simulate an 80s/90s hangout spot. There are arcade games lining the walls, foosball tables, pool tables, and board games available upon request. It really did a good job of bringing out some childhood nostalgia. We ended up playing Jenga, Battle of the Sexes, and Yahtzee and had quite a good time.
The food menu was your typical pub food - nothing too adventurous here. I ordered the Southern Style Chicken Fried Steak because I remember the picture on the online menu looked amazing. Others in my party had the poutine fries and the chicken and waffles.
The bar menu was surprisingly not very deep... When we asked what beers they had, our waitresses' reply was "domestic and imported" (what?).
The wait time for our food was quite long, but this was to be expected with a new restaurant (we were there in the 4th day of business). However, one thing that bothered me is that my food came nearly 20 minutes after the rest of my party got their food. This is way too big of a gap and led me to believe that my order was forgotten. In the meantime, I just tried a few of the poutine fries, which were actually quite good. Based on my friends' reactions, the chicken and waffles were pretty good as well.
When my food finally came, my first thought was ... this looks nothing like the online menu! Where was the breading? Where was the gravy? I didn't think much of it then, and just ate. The fries were good, but the chicken just tasted mediocre... It definitely did not take much effort to make.
Looking at their menu on their website afterwards, I realized that none of our dishes looked like the website pictures! So I decided to do a quick google search, and their chicken steak picture was actually from MyRecipes.com (http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/chicken-fried-steak-3)! Really Old School? I ordered that dish based on the picture on your website!
If you've been to the restaurant, you'll notice that the pictures used on the website aren't of the actual restaurant either. I'm not sure why this was done? In the age of Instagram where a picture truly is worth a thousand words, why misrepresent your menu, much less your entire space? If the Contact page didn't specify the address, I would be certain this was a website for a different restaurant.
I want Old School to do well because I like their concept of bringing childhood nostalgia to a restaurant. But from my visit there, I'm just very, very confused.
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