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VIBE
As stated, this used to be a slavic church. I love the high ceilings and wooden beams on top. There are beautiful murals of birds on the walls.
Funny thing about the scene: three food bloggers consecutively sat down at the bar, each not knowing the other was going to be there. It turned into this random tweetup. Such is life in the social media world of Toronto. Otherwise, there were about two other couples here.
Service is pretty attentive.
WE ATE/DRANK
The really cool thing about Church Aperitivo is that they offer FREE nibbles if you have a drink from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. every Tuesday to Saturday
From their site:
Beginning in Northern Italy and dating as far back as the 1700's, it is an authentic
Italian tradition that combines small plate food with refreshing light alcoholic drinks
during the hours of early evening as a relaxing prelude to dinner.
So basically, it's not your typical North American Happy Hour (not that we really have one here). Anyways, good idea! It's a lot of arancini, fried eggplant, bruschetta, and mini pizzas. I had three plates (starving!).
This isn't a typical dinner place. It's mainly tapas so we shared a few plates.
We ate:
sliced striploin with arugula, cherry tomatoes, parmigiano --this was my favourite dish. The flavours complemented each other and the striploin was cooked very nicely, medium rare.
Calamari, mussels, clams, scallops, shrimps in a tomato sauce --this was a misleading dish. All of the seafood was wrapped in the calamari. It wasn't that great. Sorry. Not a fan. The calamari being grilled does not make up for it.
Fresh spaghetti, cherry tomato, basil pesto, mascarpone cheese --it was a good dish and very fresh but very simple and not worth $12 for something I could make at home.
Veal and pork meatballs, house made sugo - hearty but lacked flavour for me.
The bloggers had the crostini and it looked plentiful and delish! I'd probably go for that if I ever come back.
We drank: Villa Pillo Borgoforte from 2008. A lovely, rich red. Went down smooth. Had a bit of a bite to it. I liked it.
OBLIGATORY CATCHY REMARK
Definitely a great aperitivio but definitely NOT cheapo! Per person, for two glasses of wine plus food we paid $60. I'd rather stuff my face at Grand Electric for the same price for a full blown dinner.
It's a really nice date place though and the vibe is lovely. I'd stick to one or two apps so you don't go over the budget.
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