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| - I passed this place a few times when going to /from work, and it always seemed busy, so decided to check out out.
From the jump I knew something was "interesting" about this place. When we walked in there were two doors, one on the right and one on the left. No clear indication as to which to choose. We chose the one on the right, and when we got through we still didn't get an indication that we chose correctly. No sign indicating that someone will seat us, or that we should seat ourselves. Someone met our puzzled looks with a "table for 2?". When we sat down, we immediately realized we were in 1989. The decor was that of an old cruise ship, with terribly clichéd atmosphere from what appeared to be a semi formal restaurant from the late 80/early 90s. It was kind of charming at first, but got annoying later when we realized it wasn't on purpose, but clearly an extremely out of date theme.
After soaking in the atmosphere, we realized that every waitress was at least 60 years old. As we're all the patrons. Beside the little girl that came with her grandparents, my wife and I were the youngest people in the place. Nothing against older wait staff, but it fit the theme this place and review is heading. The menu seemed to have everything and nothing at the same time. Being billed as a deli I expected a concentrated reference to sandwiches and the like, instead the sandwich part of the menu was more like an insert that was an added bonus to the outdated rest of the menu.
I chose the "beef on a kaiser" (19.99) wanting a nice traditional deli sandwich, which came with an au jus dip, one of my favs. The wife got got the double (2 pieces) fish and chips (23.99). We were served bread and butter while we waited for our food. Fresh bread, but not warm. Wife's ginger ale was flat and we asked for an iced tea to replace it. Side note: we were charged for both the ginger ale AND the iced tea but didn't realize until we got home and looked at the ridiculous bill. More on that later.
The fish and chips came with a soup, which wasn't mentioned on the menu, but we were intrigued. The waitresses were pushing the chicken noodle soup on everyone for some weird reason, but we thought it was an added bonus. She said "it comes with the soup. It's really good eh!" It wasn't. It tasted OK, but was clearly not house made, and had ground chicken in it which I thought was weird. It also was oddly extra yellow, which indicated a lot of powdered mix, and had bits of ground chicken fat floating in it.
We then got our mains and the portions were huge. My sandwich was a foot tall and we both got at least a cereal bowl portion of coleslaw, which I never eat.
Sandwich: Extremely dry meat. I had to dip in the au jus just to be able to chew it down. Rather tasteless as well. Kaiser bun was at least a day old, almost stale. Fries were standard fare. Fresh cut home made, but dry, leading me to believe they were frozen for a while. Au jus tasted good, but I didn't think it was natural, seemed like it came from a powder.
Fish and chips: Fish was good quality, but not sure what type. Tasted good, although the batter was not crispy at all.
Overall, food was 2.5 out of 5. Then the bill came. And although we saw the price of the food when we ordered, it didn't hit home until we got the bill. A little over $60 for something I could have made at home, and a lot better.
Will not be returning and cannot recommend this to anyone else. Not sure why /how the others recommend the sandwiches here, but based on my experience, I could never compare this with any reputable deli ever. Want a good sandwich? Hit up The Corned Beef House, downtown Toronto. Avoid this place like the plague.
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