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| - A definite visual standout in the downtown core, this is the kind of restaurant I would hope to see more of in Brampton.
I can only give a superficial review of this place due to the fact that I only attended a breakfast event here and didn't have a chance to go for dinner - I need to remedy that in the future.
There are two different fields of thought here - a restaurant with nice leather seats, high ceilings and a patio that evokes the kind of cool, upscale feel that you'd get at a trendy club in downtown T.O. Then you get to the food and the service, which reminds me a lot of the mentality of a pub-style restaurant like Roc'n Doc's down in Port Credit, where what you get is what you get, and the staff couldn't be bothered to care about customer engagement.
The food I had here (as part of a "campaign-style" roundtable event with a politician) was good, but certainly nothing to write home about. You know something's off when the most memorable part of the experience, five months later, is the coffee. I didn't want to give this place less than three stars because the circumstances and quality may have changed drastically since I was last there, and I'd rather go more in-depth if and when I do an update piece on it.
Carve stands out as a beautiful hangout spot and a great patio, but it remains to be seen how the food quality will shake out. As others have said, it's definitely a unique and much-needed presence in the downtown core, and I'd be very interested to go back and see how things have changed in the interim.
Worth a look.
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