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| - The ambiance is messy and dirty, literally you can look up and see the dust on the vents and fans. The place is not even painted properly. I thought they were under construction, but apparently 'that's their style'. It's tacky in a dirty way, not in a fun hipster way. The tables are super small, that you have to literally stack plates to eat. The tables are also really close to each other, that the waiters will hit your chair at least a few times a night. The waiters are dressed casually, but not in a preppy way or even in a hipster way, just in a 'homeless man' way.
The music is terrible. It's super loud. They play the crappy stuff on top 40.
The service is alright, I mean you do get your food - if that's your standard. Some things I asked the waiter to bring never show up. They just leave the pitcher of water on your table for you to serve yourself. It took a lot for me to get the waiters attention, at least 6 tries calling him over.
The food is not good. You can eat it. If that's your standard. For starters we ordered the focaccia bread, which was four tiny pieces of crostini, NOT focaccia!! You would think a place masquerading as Italian would know what focaccia is. We had the scallops with pork belly - it was two pieces for $10; quite a lot for just two. It was over cooked and the pork belly makes it extra salty. We had this cheese starter, and it was something you can't go wrong with - they just serve cheese not make it right, but when you slice it it was really cold, as if it came out of the freezer cold, to put it in perspective.
We had Gnocchi with bolognese sauce (ragu), which was TERRIBLE. You're wondering how could gnocchi be bad? well, they made it in-house, and it is literally potato sized oval shaped gnocchi - did they get lazy here or not know what gnocchi is? The sauce had no taste, as if they threw together tomato sauce and ground beef in a pan and served it as is.
I had the braised ossobuco, which was ok. It was not a good ossobuco, but ok. It was cooked. The flavour was all over the place but masked with a lot of peppers, I don't know why. I added lemon to it, and it was then something I could eat.
For additional sides we had the asparagus, which was the only thing they got right, and the rapini, which was super hard (not something you could eat). The bread they brought for the table was good - I mean it's bread.
Generally though everything we ordered had too much pepper. Their kitchen is on the side, with very minimal light coming in - I'm not sure if that explains why the food is terrible - they can't see what they're making.
For wine we had Chianti - it tasted cheap.
This place is terrible. We couldn't wait to get out. They didn't just get it wrong on one aspect, but everything! Would not recommend or go back. People of Toronto, get some descent expectations and stop riding on hypes, which give places like this good reviews when really it's the hype talking.
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