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| - Ever since Shops @ Don Mills opened I've frequented Joey Don Mills to satisfy my appetite. Well I've always wanted to try Glow but never got up the nerve since Joey's is a tried and true tested staple, why mess with a great thing? Well it has finally happened, I tried Glow and they failed miserably.
It took a packed Joey's with a wait time of 40+ minutes for the lounge to get me to step into this establishment and even while I was standing at the door with the hostess asking how many people were in my party, I still wanted to run out the door. I should've listened to my instincts.
When walking in, there isn't a standard hostess table, the door opens up to someone's table, correct me if I'm wrong but that isn't exactly the best way to greet a customer and whomever gets that table is just completely shafted. The decor is light wood paneling everywhere and fake plants, it has a very earthy tone which coincides with their healthy menu. The lights drove me insane, they changed from blue lighting (the best) to green light to red light. I felt like I was in a slow motion disco.
When I went to order my drinks, I browsed the drinks' menu, not a lot cocktails but they had the staple bellinis and margaritas. I ordered a mango margarita and was informed that they don't do blended cocktails anymore, in fact, they don't even own a blender...oh boy.
The menu is simply 2 pages or appetizers, salads, meats/poultry/fish and dessert. There wasn't a lot to choose from so I ended up ordering 4 appetizers and sharing. Mussels, lobster mac and cheese, sliders and crab cakes.
I couldn't even tell you which one I hated the worse. They were bland and had no flavour and the sliders didn't even come with buns, they were just the patty. The crab cakes were massive but they tasted like fake crab meat and the lobster mac and cheese didn't have any butter or cream in it and I couldn't even taste the lobster. The best thing (imo) were the mussels. They did have a slight fishy taste but it wasn't unbearably fishy tasting, it just tasted like you were eating seafood.
Not only was the food horrible and bland but the prices were outrageous. I almost fell off my chair when the bill came and the most expensive app...not the crab cakes or even the lobster mac and cheese...it was the bunless sliders for $14! That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
The only thing that made the evening bearable was the server. He was wonderful, I give him two thumbs up and he made my evening enjoyable even though the food was terribly awful. He was funny and conversed well and he knew what he was talking about.
I never got the try an entree but realistically, I highly doubt it would've been any better than the appetizers and I'll never get to try them because I will never ever ever ever come back to this place EVER again! I don't care how long the wait is at Joey's, I'll starve before I eat at this place again.
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