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| - I enjoyed the food at Soba Canada as it fit a lot of the criteria I look for when I'm going to a "specialty" restaurant: menu items not easily found elsewhere, authentic, fresh ingredients, homemade everything....but the one criteria it was missing for me, was value - or should I say, volume. At an average of $20 for a soba dish, it's just a little bit steep to eat more than once in my life. It's not that I wouldn't pay $20 for food, it's just that I had to go eat a real dinner after that. Word of advice, if you're hungry, do not get the oboro soba (house-made tofu on soba) just for yourself without planning to share someone else's meal. It's literally a glob of tofu on top of plain noodles. The seafood soba came with veggie and seafood tempura though which was very well done and just filling enough for a light-medium eater.
A note on the ambiance at the restaurant; there is none. There is no background music and it wasn't very crowded when I went, so it was dead silent and super awkward because if you spoke at barely above a whisper, the whole restaurant could hear you. Also the furniture belongs in a library from the 90's, not a restaurant.
Overall, I think I liked Soba Canada because the food was "authentic" and fresh. But at the same time, you have to like buckwheat noodles to begin with, and cold noodles just don't provide that satisfaction of a filling meal, especially not for dinner.
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