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| - Used to come here regularly and take friends here when they visit from out of town. I'll never be back again because of the rude service. It seems that this restaurant has become so successful they no longer care about how they treat customers, because business is pretty much guaranteed anyway.
My friend and I arrived Friday night and were ignored as people who came in after us were approached by the host. We finally got his attention and his response: "yep?" After he understood that we'd also like to add our names to the wait list (shocking I know), we were told there's a 40 minute wait (pretty standard here, especially for Friday night. Don't take reservations). We asked if we could wait at the bar until a table opened up. No seats free but people were hovering. He walked away without saying anything.
We went to the bar where two seats cleared up, sat down. Bartender looked at us and rolled her eyes. We were about to find out why. Same host comes over and says loudly and without meeting our eyes the entire time- as if he's talking above our heads "actually there are people sitting there and there's a long list of people waiting in front of you so I'm going to have to ask you to move." We both apologized like good Canadians and I asked if we needed a reservation for the bar as well? This is the only restaurant in the city where that's the case. In the midst of explaining why we sat down, he interrupted me with this gem: "we've been here for six years and have always done this soooo..." So you're a rude, snotty, incompetent host at a trendy bar apparently. By this point, half the bar and the bartender with were eyeing us as this guy treated us like misbehaving kids.
I told him he could take our name off the list and we wouldn't be coming back. He interrupted me even as I said this with some throwaway "Yeah ok we'll text you sure ok bye."
Congratulations, 416 Snack Bar- you caught us: the city's nefarious bar stool-thiefs hellbent on bypassing cues. You fought the good fight, clearly. I hope the momentary ego boost you felt was worth losing about a dozen customers (my friend and I, our friends who came here with us a few times), host/list enforcer.
Despite its name, this place does not represent my Toronto. So many fantastic bars and restaurants to choose from in this city, don't waste your time with the attitude here. (P.S: We went to Lisa Marie a few doors down and had a great time listening to a live DJ, eating yummy mini plates of Thai pouting and tuna tartar nachos), and chatting with the cool bartender and servers.)
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