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| - Located not too far away from the Mimico GO Station (just west of Lakeshore Road W and Park Lawn Road), this is a casual joint with a very intimate and relaxed vibe - think twinkling lights, brick wall, open space with a decent amount of seating. A nice setting for a date, or a family or group dinner.
First, parking. There's street parking in front of the restaurant, and on the residential street adjacent to it (but you can't park on the residential street between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM).
Second, the food. Overall, it wasn't anything spectacular, but it was nice and did the job. We ordered the Vesuvio Pizza ($17.00 - crushed tomatoes, crispy breaded prosciutto, salted ricotta) and the Gnocchi Fritti ($16.00 - fried purple potato gnocchi with green apple and crushed chestnuts). It isn't the best Italian food you'll ever have, and there are certainly better joints in Toronto, but the meal was perfectly fine. The pizza was lacking in prosciutto (we could barely find any) so they unfortunately scrimp on the meat, but the textures were interesting and it was delicious and light. The Gnocchi was fine, but didn't have very much body in terms of flavour. Portion size was also smaller than expected - at $16.00, we thought it was pricey for the small handful of gnocchi pieces we were served.
With tax and tip, our meal came to around $45.00 (no drinks). It's a nice place to check out at least once, but it terms of value, it seemed pricey for what we received. Overall, not bad - service was great, and food was decently tasty. A solid 3 to 3.5*.
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