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| - This was quite an experience. If you want to be treated like royalty in similarly suited location, then this is the place for you.
The restaurant is obviously very beautiful, set inside Casa Loma, the feeling is high end, luxurious and over-indulgent. We were seated at one of those round tables in one of the more historic-looking rooms, it was quite comfortable and it seems like most people are here to celebrate something, as this is certainly not an everyday, casual restaurant.
The service was excellent. It's kind of an art to achieve the type of service we had, it was subtle and we almost never noticed when the server came by to fill our glasses or clear our table. He was helpful, engaging and so quick and prompt with requests while also somehow staying in the background and not intruding in on our conversation. I think this is truly good service, sometimes I find servers almost too eager and friendly that it comes off as intrusive, this is the opposite but in a good way.
The food is where one star gets knocked off. Honestly, everything was delicious, but the portion sizes were a bit lacking for the prices. We ordered a few appetizers, including the table-side Cesar salad, the French onion soup, the beef carpaccio and the shrimp cocktail. The Cesar salad was a real spectacle to watch. Someone in our group has a fish and seafood allergy and since they make the dressing right in front of you, they were able to omit the anchovies and Worcestershire sauce which is a nice option. For mains, we had the tomahawk steak and a rib eye to share, along with a few sides, fries, gnocchi, asparagus, and the creamed corn. The tomahawk steak was delicious and cooked nicely. I didn't try the rib eye but I heard it was just ok. I found the sides to be all good but I just don't think there's any value in them at all. They were all around $16 or so and they were meager portion sizes. I would say they're shareable among two people if that, there were about 5-6 big fries per order and maybe 6-8 asparagus spears to give an example. They were tasty but not really worthwhile. Same with some of the appetizers, this is the epitome of those big fancy plate-small portion characteristics you see at high-end restaurants. This is a steakhouse though and I think something like fries should be decently plentiful. I suppose you really do have to anticipate a hefty bill when you come here, it's not a cheap or even moderately priced restaurant by any means. Lastly we ordered some desserts, the lemon meringue pie dessert was my favourite, I also tried the creme brûlée which was really good and the trio of desserts which was beautiful to look at but I found there to be too many sickly sweet elements that didn't really mesh together very nicely. I might opt to skip dessert and just enjoy that diamond shaped truffle they give you at the end of the meal, which was a nice, charming touch.
Some other notes, parking is $10 for self parking, I think $15 or so for valet. I think they can probably afford to do free parking for the restaurant, most groups are probably spending over $100/person so that would be a nice touch.
Overall, I think this was a one-time experience. If you have the spare change, I'd say try it once for an over-indulgent experience. It really is a beautiful restaurant with great food!
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