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  • Sorrel offers a combination of French Bistro food - steak tartare, duck confit, seared scallops - and Italian bistro fare with a selection of different pastas. There are also daily specials which on our visit included seared Quebec foie gras appetizer and 2 different grilled fish. All sounded interesting. I would have been even more interested if the waiter had quoted us the prices. But he did not. I find it very annoying when a restaurant makes you ask the price of specials. They know full well people are uncomfortable having to ask. Having been stuck before for specials where I didn't ask the price I either ask or forgo the specials. In this case none of our party of 4 went with the specials. We had Malpeque oysters as an appetizer. Well priced at $1 per oyster. But they were strangely mushy in texture. As opposed to fresh grated horseradish they provide pickled horseradish. 2 of us had Duck confit which was very good. One had seared scallops. Also very good. One had pasta with a tomato sauce which rated a good. Bread pudding for dessert was nothing remarkable. The wine list is unimaginative with an average 300% mark up. They do not allow you to bring wine and pay corkage. Sorrel is a relatively new addition to the Rosedale restaurant scene opening a few months ago in the former site of Pastis, a longtime Rosedale favourite. Sorrel was packed on a recent Saturday night during Winterlicious. But it was not participating in Winterlicious and this was not a Winterlicious crowd. It is clearly a new favourite with the monied 65+ Rosedale crowd. There's nothing trendy about the decor. It's pretty basic and unimaginative. They have crammed every available square inch with tables which results in some rather unfortunate table locations and tables too close together. As a result, depending on where you sit, you can have people constantly bumping you as they squeeze by. In our case, there was a constant stream of traffic passing us to either the kitchen, the washrooms or the coat check. Waiters and busboys were constantly dropping cutlery or plates as they squeezed past. My wife and friend were constantly being hit in the head with coats or large handbags as they were brought to or from the coat rack. I focus on the atmosphere and the room because they illustrate what I feel is wrong with Sorrel. The food was good. The service was good. But the room and the atmosphere are poor. In terms of pricing, Sorrel is competing with the likes of Scaramouche Pasta Bar and Pangaea and many, many others. Similar menus. Similar pricing. Much better rooms. Much better atmosphere. Some of them also charge 300% mark-up on wines. But most allow you to pay corkage. Bottom line is that we had no complaint about the meal. But dining is far more than just the meal. The dining experience at Sorrel was not very pleasant. I recommend trying the Pasta Bar or Pangaea.
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