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| - Fancy a cheeky Nando's with a pint or a cuppa, mate? Or maybe the Coke Freestyle Machine, choose from Coke or Diet Coke, Powerade, Minute Maid Lemonade or Dasani. Now choose your fruit flavour & will that be caffeine free. Oh yeah. Pop is bottomless for $2.75. Now the peri-peri chicken plate: Daughter and I chose a medium sauce variety share plate, well worth it at $29.75. OMG! 2 succulent chicken skewers nicely spiced, we each had one and I shared a bite of mine cause it was so good, with hubby, 1/2 chicken with the medium peri-peri sauce, plus 5 wings.
It comes with 2 sides. We chose to share the Casa Salad & garlic mashed potatoes. The salad dressings are Creamy or Balsamic Vinegarette, Olive Oil or Classic bottles at the cutlery counter, help yourself. The little salad was exceptionally fresh, good quality cucumbers (daughter scarfed them ALL but said apologetically that they were VERY good!) cherry tomatoes, (they popped in my mouth, so fresh!) and crunchy romaine lettuce. The garlic mashed redskin potatoes were really well spiced.
What I'm trying to say is that although you might want to grate some fresh pepper onto your meal, particularly the salad or chicken breast, you really don't miss using the salt around here. If you do want salt though, it's cunningly hidden in a little wooden egg shaker (yes, it's an egg) right next to the little Portuguese rooster who has your table number and who will hold his place until the waitress has brought over your hot meal.
Daughter scarfed the leg WAAAH! But with the extra Peri Peri sauce bottle, even the dryer white meat was quite good. If you are not sure of how spicy the peri peri sauce will be but feel brave, follow my plan: order the medium sauce on your chicken but pick up the Hot or Extra Hot Nando's peri-peri sauce bottle to shake onto your food from their serving counter, where the cutlery (real metal cutlery, none of that plastic crap) and Coke Freestyle Machine is located (this will the first time using that machine with Real Glass Tumblers!).
Lotsa dessert choices too but we went for the bottomless yogurt, which may be chocolate, vanilla or strawberry depending on what day you come in a little cup you refill yourself at the yogurt machine. It's very similar to a Wendy's Frosty, except that like everything else it's NOT served in paper or plastic but on nice matching oven to table ware. This is the first restaurant I ever was tempted to take a photo of their DISHES, so I did!
Lastly, the ambience and the music: the ambience is red brickwork and comfortably designed chairs and rounded booths and regular booths, nice window looking onto THE Danforth. Music, a little different from what you've heard lately, Angolan from South Africa & Portuguese music. It was nice and added to the atmosphere.
Washrooms brand new, spotless and very spacious. Service, although Nando's is partially self service, for your drinks, cutlery & straws, and you order your chicken, sides & dessert, and receive your GLASS drinking glasses at the front counter, three waitresses asked if we'd been attended to while the first one was cleaning off the window facing table I'd requested was clearing it off. Two checked how we were doing and if we needed anything. Nando's hasn't missed a trick, Yelpers. Perfect on all counts, and this is Ms. Nitpicker speaking LOL!
Oh, Swiss Chalet, you are in DEEP TROUBLE if I am any judge, if this Nando's chain gets up and running in Toronto! Not even your own peri peri sauce will help!
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