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| - I have only been back in Toronto for about six weeks now, and yet I have somehow been to this Terroni twice. Why, I ask myself? It can't be the food or the service. Basically, it's for the location and the size. This place is big, and feels even bigger with the vaulted ceilings. This also means it's very, very noisy when it's full.
I come from an Italian family, which makes me really picky about my pasta. Each time I have eaten here I've had a pasta, and it's always perfectly done, and their tomato sauces are fantastic. However, I am really bothered by the "no parmesan on seafood pasta" rule they have. No substitutions, I understand. But no parmesan, if that's what I want? When you are already at my table, grating parmesan onto my lucky fellow diners' plates? Come on. From what I've experienced, Italians put parmesan on whatever they want.
The service is, in a word, adequate. Not overly friendly, not (underly?) friendly, but they aren't really putting in anything extra. They did do a good job of recommending a wine, which was useful as they have a lot of non-LCBO wines.
So, all in all, not a bad place if you are eating with more than a few people and don't mind speaking up to your fellow diners. Not the greatest place for an intimate outing, though the baby that made up patron #5 of my group managed to sleep the whole time.
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