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| - First off, if the owners of the restaurant are reading this - PLEASE take down those horrible neon signs outside your restaurant. From the outside, they make your lovely, cosy, intimate Italian restaurant look about as authentic as the Subway across the street. Honestly, my boyfriend and I came here a year ago and last night we travelled all the way from Queen East to Queen West just to try this cute little place again, but we ended up walking past it three or four times before realising that the flashing, neon-lighted fast-food looking place actually was the delightful restaurant we had remembered. Misleading!
At least the gross signage outside means you get a pleasant surprise when you walk in. This is a tiny, dimly lit, relaxing Italian restaurant complete with a mini-waterfall fountain and real Italian music and staff to boot. Gorgeous. The menu is expansive with some really creative pasta options. There's also plenty of non-Italian dishes for those who want something different.
I had the Caesar salad followed by 'jalapeno pasta' - which was linguine with Italian sausage, chicken, stir fried vegetables in a creamy sauce. It was delicious! The spiciness of the sausage and the creamy sauce balanced each other so well. My boyfriend had the pizza bread, which he loved, and then the beef stroganoff with linguine, which he said was great. Unfortunately the stroganoff wasn't his first choice - the pork loin special he wanted was all gone by the time we ordered.
The service was typically nonchalantly Italian, which I sort of liked! Definitely a bit on the slow and shrug-your-shoulders side, but it adds to the experience! I thought it was weird how the server placed my napkin on my lap though (he did this last time over a year ago as well). He seems to do this with all the females in the restaurant - odd! It was also slightly annoying how he didn't rub off the pork loin special on the blackboard once it was gone. But no big deal. He was polite and helpful, and I loved the free garlic bread that comes as an appetizer!
This place is as good as you'd get in Toronto in terms of value for money. There are deals all over the menu - e.g: 14.95 for starter and main course from a certain selection/ 16.95 for starter and main course from another selection, etc. The portions are HUGE. I was full after my Caesar salad (which didn't even have chicken), and I had to take at least half of the pasta home in a take-out box for the next day's lunch.
The wine was delicious and similarly reasonably priced.
Will be back!
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