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| - 416 Snack Bar is conveniently located on Bathurst, just north of Queen. The place is pretty small (maybe 35-40 seats including at the bar, all very tightly packed) and was very busy on the weeknight that we went.
We had 6 people and they don't take reservations, so I arrived with 1 other person from my group approximately 30 minutes before we told the others to come. The server looked around and kind of shrugged saying they would do their best to seat us. We were put at a square 4-seat table. All the seats are bar height. One of our chairs was directly at the edge of the bar where servers were bustling past.
Luckily for us, we were moved to a larger table just as our first food order of oysters arrived. Unfortunately the longer table made it challenging to communicate because of the music/noise level in the bar. The oysters were fresh, properly shucked, and packed in a bed of salt.
Before we started ordering the rest of our food, I had a look around. It was just before 8pm and everyone else was just there with drinks. Seemed like we were one of few tables there to have a meal-sized amount of food.
Because of the nature of the menu being tapas or hors d'ouevres style, we were able to try a great deal of items and get many of the flavours on offer.
Rabbit food - their salad, and one of the few things vegetarian on the menu. It came as two lettuce wraps, and was delicious.
Steak tartare on a crostini - rich and excellent. I had a second order. Don't change it.
Shrimp pad thai salad roll - this was 2 viet/thai style salad rolls with a side of peanut sauce. The rolls had extremely hot peppers in them. I like spicy food; but these were definitely too hot and I am sure would be a major turn off for someone with less appreciation for spicy foods. Perhaps putting the spice in the dipping sauce would allow customers to control the spice level, instead of wrapping it directly into the roll.
Korean fried chicken - this is a popular item around town lately at Guu, County General, and Home of Hot Taste. I would say that 416's rendition was at least on par and a good way to try it in a slightly less expensive and smaller portion. The sauce was very tasty.
Lamb chop - again great. Don't change a thing.
Spicy tuna hand roll and steamed pork bun were average renditions.
The food that hit was great; but a couple of things were misses. The service was helpful and friendly; but perhaps limited by the noise and narrow movement areas. The experience would probably have been better with 2 or 4 people (6 made it a challenge), and just to go for drinks and bar snacks rather than for a "dinner".
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