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| - Unbelievably poor experience being a restaurant in the distillery district.
First off, for a surprisingly not so busy night (3 tables were currently seated when walking in), nobody was there to greet us as the host was busy behind the bar on his phone texting up a storm. When he finally decided to look up from his millennial ways, he asked if we had a reservation and asked for our name over the bar to which he proceeded to say, "okay, wait there". After picking up what I assume to be a reservation book and walking over to my friend and I, he asked for our name again.
Little did we know he would be our server for the night since he had not introduced himself but quietly dropped the menus on the table and walked away.
Fast forward 15 minutes before deciding to ask if we would like a drink or help with the menu, we simply ordered from the winterlicious menu with ease since he seemed to be in a rush.
The food itself was decent at best. Seemed like very little time and preparation was decidingly put into this. To be honest, for the winterlicious menu, the food could've been presented better and tasted better for that menu. As a comparison, mi-ne would have been a significantly better choice as the quality is superb.
For apps: the lobster tempura and oysters were really enlightening however was quickly let down with the follow up mains of anago and ikayaki. The amount vinegar in the anago nigri was substantial and ikayaki was a cheaper version than that of don buri (Markham).
Past the apps and main, I realized we haven't seen our server, where was he you ask? Oh on his personal cell phone walking into the bathroom talking about going out sometime this week. Fantastic...
Well who cares about that guy right? Because a waitress (the only other server available) was available for us to come to our aid and take our dessert order (three times). Yes, you heard it right, she had to come back three times before we could simply get a red bean and green tea ice cream... that was scooped out of a prebought tub.
Anyways, never saw the original server again till after we left... where you might ask? Behind the bar. Horrible experience.
Understandably this is probably a one off experience but damn. It sucked.
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