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| - I came to the Queen and Beaver for a late Saturday lunch, right after arriving to Toronto by bus. My husband and I were starving and the restaurant was only offering its pub menu at the time, but we thought the choices would be adequate.
After reading other Yelp reviews ahead of time, we first went upstairs to sit, but it was very busy, so we decided to go back downstairs to sit. We sat at the downstairs bar, which was empty besides the servers and us at the time. Personally, I found the quieter downstairs area much nicer than upstairs. The servers were also very pleasant.
I had the mushroom pithivier, which came out looking like a slice of cake with some salad. The pithivier consisted of lots of layers of thinly sliced potato, a layer of mushroom and some melted cheese, and a layer of puff pastry. It was tasty, but overpriced at $22. My husband's full-size mussels dish was $21 in comparison, which seemed much more reasonable. It was very odd my vegetarian dish cost more than his did, especially when he had seafood, which can be a little pricey. I gobbled up the pithivier and salad greens in no time, and helped myself to some of the fries that also came with my husband's order.
Maybe other dishes are more fairly priced, but the pithivier was the only meatless option that wasn't an appetizer/snack. As charming as the atmosphere was, we were underwhelmed by our first Toronto meal, and left feeling like we'd overpaid.
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