After reading many reviews and hearing that Origin was recently rated #1 restaurant in Toronto, I came to this place expecting a lot.
For everyone's sake who ventures here, I hope that my high expectation left me so disappointed.
I came in a group of 4. The decor was good enough. Service was quite quick yet friendly. The staff were quite down-to-earth which I appreciated.
I found the volume of music quite loud and the tables were large (suited for sharing meals). As a result, I was limited to discussion with the person beside me.
My main complaint was the food.
We ordered the spanish fries with chorizo - which was interesting and tasty 5/10. Most fries were soggy which is why this dish loses points.
The mushroom, apple sushi roll presented itself beautifully! It came to us on a wooden block and the mushrooms looked delectable. We were hugely disappointed eating this though. I could barely taste the mushrooms. There was no hint of apple (maybe they forgot to add it?) and the rice was dense and mushy.
The Bufala Mozzarella, pear, pine nut, honey dish was pretty good - 7/10. Probably my favourite dish of the evening.
The Black cod was itself was pretty good but the bed of noodles and sauce was very bland.
My friends ate the Duck, flour tortilla and were also disappointed.
Oysters were decent - again nothing memorable.
Needless to say, I won't be heading here again.