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| - A group of us went to Keriwa Cafe on a Saturday night with great expectations, especially after being written up in the Globe & Mail. We were very excited to try something new and were pleasantly surprised when we arrived at the resto with the cool decor, nestled in a very unique neighbourhood.
The service, to say the least, was terrible right from the get-go. Our server took quite a long time to take our drink orders, and forgot 2 people's drink orders twice - to which we had to keep repeatedly asking. After finally receiving the entire drink order, it took her an additional 20 minutes or so to bring the menus, and over half an hour to take our dinner orders. As a previous review, nothing was quite timed right. We waited a very long time for our appetizers, and received our mains approximately 45 minutes after finishing the first course. We brought this to the attention of our server, to which she replied that it really wasn't that long between courses, instead of acknowledging the delays between meals.
The reviews from our group: As for the appetizers, the beet salad was wonderful, as was the pork belly confit. As for the mains: we had decent expectations of the pheasant and bison. The pheasant was overcooked and dry. The bison dish: the bison was prepared well, however the potatoes seemed like they had been cooking all night and were exceptionally dry. The red pepper coulis that accompanied the meat was a rather odd pairing and could have been done differently. It was a less than mediocre dish in everyone's opinion who ordered both courses.
All in all, due to the poor service, coordination and timing, I would not recommend this restaurant, nor would I go back. Our dinner started at 9:30, and ended at 1am because of the delays from the server and the kitchen - in the entire group's opinion, this took far too long.The server could have handled our table better and taken into consideration our table's feedback about the delay between courses as opposed to telling us there wasn't a long wait time for anything. For the price point and quality of our meal, it wasn't a match. It was definitely overpriced for the quality of the food and service.
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