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| - I've only been here once, so to be fair, maybe it was just an off day for the cook or something. My boyfriend and I were wandering around Toronto at around 3pm on a Friday trying to find a place to eat a late lunch. We stumbled upon Free Times Cafe and thought it looked fine. It was such a nice day that we decided this would be great because of the patio and open windows. Ugh. Living in Vancouver, I forget that people are still allowed to smoke on patios. Disgusting. I absolutely do not want to smell someone's cigarette while I'm eating. We ended up moving tables three times trying to get away from the cigarette smoke from outside.
That being said, the server was totally cool and friendly with us wanting to move around. The servers were also quite helpful in helping me find some vegan options on the menu, which I greatly appreciated. I want to be clear that I never had an issue with the servers attitude or anything like that. They were always quite friendly to us. One of the servers did tell me that the falafel there is the best in the city. If that's true, then Toronto falafel must taste like sewer water elsewhere.
I got the falafel plate and my boyfriend ordered the ceasar salad. He was kind of stoked because usually there are anchovies in a ceasar salad (he's just vegetarian, not vegan like myself). His salad looked really weird. He said the dressing sort of just tasted like watery mayo and there was dried parmesan sprinkled all over the top - like that really cheap Kraft parmesan you get at the grocery store that's all powdery in the green container? That stuff. The "bread crumbs" were just pieces of wheat bread crust. The lettuce looked fresh enough at least.
My falafal plate was such a disaster. I kept thinking that if Gordon Ramsey walked in here, he would turn this place into one of those Kitchen Nightmares episodes. The hummus was alright, but nothing to write home about. Not much flavor, but not offensive at least. The falafal was fried much too hot and too long. It was burnt on the outside and still raw in the middle. The grilled vegetables appeared to have been grilled many days before and taken directly out of the fridge. They were cold and rubbery and I couldn't even force myself to eat them. The couscous salad was passable, but dry with no flavor. For some reason there was salsa in a bowl in the middle of the plate, too. That was weird. The eggplant salad was old, probably made a week or so before. It was bland and oily and looked like it had been sitting around for a long time. The pita bread was stale and burnt. I could hear a loud noise when I banged the pita triangles on my plate!
To top all of this off, the server never once came back once we had our food. I was drinking water and was only given a small glass, which I finished rather quickly. It would have been nice to be able to say that at least I could get a refill of water after this horrific food.
I have never had food this horrible before, especially not something that should be so easy. After we left, we immediately found somewhere else to eat so we at least wouldn't be hungry for the rest of the day. Yuck. I would never, ever go back here again and I would never, ever recommend anyone to go here either.
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