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| - This restaurant recently moved from the downstairs location at 545 Yonge Street, below Wellesley, to its current street level location at 591 Yonge, in the space previously occupied by SHUSHI Hanna, concurrent with its name change to "Fernando's"..
I had not been in this place in a few years, so decided to take chance on it and check out the new location. The restaurant's decor is kitchy and charming, in a run-down sort of way. What happened next was a series of unfortunate events. I began by ordering a Margarita that made my mouth pucker because it was so tart and improperly mixed. I asked the indifferent waitress to fix it, however her disingenuous reply was simply that the Margaritas are prepared in bulk every day, - a "non reply, reply".....
The meal I ordered later emerged with the plate at around 350 degrees F ... When I ended up burning myself on the plate and decided to complain, the owner./manager/chef/bouncer invited himself to sit down across from me at my table and proceed give me a gratuitous lecture about how he "has been doing it this way for 20 years, etc, etc." I was astounded.
Everything about this place screams that they are "phoning it in" : from the dried out rice they served me, the meat that was dried out and tough ( like it came out of a can) to the poor quality of the hurried paint job on the walls..
Stay away, stay FAR FAR away !
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