Disappointed Enough to Write a Review.
Each year we allow my son to pick a favorite restaurant for his birthday. He picked Spoon and Fork Vaughn for his 14th birthday yesterday and his disappointment was heartbreaking. The first "red flag" was the staff sitting and smoking on the open garbage room as we approached. The restaurant is very dark, but on a sunny afternoon you can easily see the dirty windows and door handles past the garbage and cigarette butts strewn over the closed patio. The staff were not overly friendly and we received little attention once we decided to order a la carte. The food arrived way to quickly and I would compare the food quality as the equivalent to that of a food court. Despite being advertised as crab, all of the crab dished we ordered contained imitation crab meat or pollock. If I had witnessed the men's washroom before dinner, I would not have eaten at Spoon and Fork. Leaky faucets wrapped in towels, human waste on the floor, water damage stains and greasy prints everywhere. There was no way that washroom was cleaned that day. It was so bad that I felt it was my civic duty to tell the hostess to have it cleaned before someone gets sick. I have eaten at a lot of restaurants and I never posted a review. I felt that I had to share my experience. For $160 (before tip) I feel I got cheated. What's worse, I feel sad for the disappointment in my son's eyes over what was supposed to be his special meal. The difficult part was not discussing how bad the restaurant was afterwards for fear of hurting his feelings for picking it.