A summary of my visit to cowbell is good food, bad server.
The good:
- the food was good. The menu changes all the time and is written on a chalkboard. They buy whole animals and use all of them. The salami offerings are all made in house and the other ingrediants are sourced locally when they can be. It's generally a cool place with good food.
- I had the baked beans which was a mistake. I should have had a meat product. The baked beans were only 2 stars but everyone elses meat dishes were 3 to 4 stars. My salad was plain but really good.
- the restroom was clean & I like their faucet
- really like the tiles on the floor
- they didn't rush us out the door at all like other reviews, in fact they seemed happy to have us stay as long as we liked
The bad:
- we had a server I didn't like. He didn't explain the menu and really only seemed interested in talking to a wine-guy who was part of our group. He was really distant and uninterested in the rest of the table. In contrast, my friends knew one of the other servers who stopped by to give my side of the table a run down of the menu and she was excellent. This would be a 4 star review if she had been our server.
Would I go here again?
Maybe. It's really out there in parkdale and it was good but not amazing. If other people wanted to meet here I would be happy to do so but I wouldn't choose this venue.