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| - It's Friday Dinner and a Movie Date Night! This location is conveniently located in the same plaza as the Eglinton Town Centre Cinema so its a perfect fit!
It's a bit after 8pm and theres a 30 minute wait to get a seat in the dining room. I inquire about the bar side and the hostess alerts me that we can just on over and seat ourselves. It's also packed on this side, but luckily I spot the only vacant bar table in the very back corner.
We seat ourselves and await the arrival of our waiter. He comes on over and runs the menu by us and takes our drink order. I soon realize that our waiter who is also the bartender on this side is solely in charge of waiting all the tables over here. However he somehows manages it well never neglecting anyone.
After quickly perusing the menu (we have a little over one hour to dine before we have to depart to our movie) we are ready to order. Our waiter notices our closed menus and comes over to take our orders:
Both Entrees come with all-you-can-eat soup or salad and garlic homeloaf.
Garlic Homeloaf - Soft, warm, baugette brushed with garlic butter, beautifully presented, How can you flaw fresh baked bread?
Garden Salad - Mixed greens, grape tomatoes, pepperoncini peppers, red onions, black olives and croutons tossed in there famous house vinaigrette.
Caesar Salad - Romaine lettuce, bacon pieces and seasoned croutons tossed with creamy Caesar dressing.
Both salads are dressed well, fresh crisp greens, simple, basic salad, but good flavour.
Hell's Kitchen Chicken - Spicy chicken sautéed with mushrooms, fresh Roma tomatoes, spicy chilli peppers and our Arrabbiata tomato sauce. Served with fresh seasonal vegetables and spaghetti with spicy tomato sauce.
The chicken had a good kick too it! It was also served with a plump red hot pepper which increased the heat, if you dare to bite into it! Chicken was cooked well, I just wish it was a bigger portion of meat. Pasta came out steaming hot which I love and I enjoyed the plump mushrooms served on the chicken.
Small Pepperoni Pizza - The classic pepperoni pizza with a blend of cheeses and pizza sauce.
Hot and crispy, gooey cheesey ... simple, basic, good and it really is small...
No time for dessert we ask our waiter to bring our bill over. He does so quickly because he knows were running over to the movies.
Overall simple, basic, tastey Italian food. If your looking for a meal close to the theatre this is your best bet, even without reservations we got through our meal fast enough to catch our movie. Prompt and friendly service despite the overly full and busy restaurant. Definitely make reservations if your planning to come here on a weekend or try your luck at the bar side for speedy service.
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