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  • Ended up at East! on a whim - should have yelped it first. The restaurant was quite busy but we were fortunate to score a table in the glassed in store front that places you right on the edge of the sidewalk. A perfect place to people watch which is always fun on Queen West and even better as it was St. Patrick's Day making the crowd slightly larger, greener and more intoxicated than usual. We were a little concerned from the get go as they had no Sapporo on tap (had to go with the 7.95 can) and were also out of bubbles for the Thai bubble tea (which was an odd concoction of tea, perhaps mango juice, evaporated milk and who knows what else). Anytime a restaurant is out of menu standards it makes me wonder about the overall management of the operation. Ordered the chili grilled squid, spring rolls and shrimp dumplings as apps. The dumplings were sweet and delicate but accompanied by a hot chili sauce with a dollop of mustard that completely overpowered the flavour. The soy based sauce that came with the non-descript spring rolls was a much better dip. Grilled squid okay but nothing special. Shared a couple of noodle dishes, veggie and tofu pad thai (sweet and tangy but not very pad thai-y) and the Shanghai noodles and seafood which lacked much seafood and was very bland. Service was pleasant but irregular - where I come from, "be right back with your appetizers" generally means a few minutes not 20 but perhaps given the rabbit warren nature of some Toronto buildings the kitchen is up on Dundas somewhere or the microwave was on the fritz. From my perspective, not worthwhile if you are in the area as East's "Asian fusion" manages only to fuse Asian styles into blandness. There is better Asian to be had in the area. I would have given only two stars but my less adventurous dining companions were quite happy with the meal and gave it four so I compromised. In my mind East! is up-scale mall food court which fits right in with the hip-replacement mall-like retail world that Queen West has mostly become.
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