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| - Last evening Saturday, we had a reservation for dinner but decided to change it once we saw Barsa, remembering that we had a really great meal a couple of years ago. I wish I could say that we had the same experience, but not true! We decided on the tasting menu, the server advised to choose the lower end of the price range, $55 per person instead of the $65 per person. Sounded impressive that the server was encouraging us to actually save money! :-) He assured us that we could tailor our meal to our likings, The server forgot that ,although we did remind him. We were pretty clear about our choices, the first few courses started with some interesting choices gazpacho, it was green... But tasted very good! Then we moved into the fried foods section... I'm a hater of anything fried, I'm pretty sure we explained that! Now we are in two hours into the meal , I'm tired of sitting !! I'm seriously losing interest in any more food because it's after 9 PM our reservation was at 7:15. Clearly, we are not a priority in the restaurant... They start serving the main course which was Mediterranean sea bass. Although it was very hard to tell because it was covered in so many layers of I'm not sure??. Next we moved into a chicken dish,, by the way it's approaching 10 PM. At that point it was much too late to eat however we did nibble a little. Then came dessert , we are very explicit about please no more fried food!! And they brought us a lemon cake which was actually very good! The over all taste of dinner was very fat laden.. each bite you could taste the oil, but not only tasted it was very visual in each one of the dishes! I've been to Spain I have enjoyed tapas....This is not anything remotely close to what I've experienced in the mother country....And unfortunately nothing like our first experience a few years ago. We won't be back, perhaps it was an off night... But I don't think so .Clearly, the wait staff including what I think might of been the owner knew that we were mildly disappointed.
Oh well, there are plenty of great places to dine in Toronto.... NEXT!!
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