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Found out about this place via a friend who visited here in their first week of opening and he raved about their sous-vide steak, which is only available on Fridays and Saturdays, plus you have to reserve beforehand. I decided to give this place a try this past weekend as a result.
This restaurant is quite hard to find; you have to enter an office building, go up one of the sketchiest elevators in Markham, then enter iDarts Toronto and it will be on your right. Yes, you have to enter a darts building in order to actually enter the restaurant itself.
Chix & Stix is similar to the Korean bars that dominate Yonge between Finch and Sheppard; the menu has the Korean feel to it, and they play loud Kpop and other Asian music on TV screens.
In addition to the sous-vide steak, we ordered the fried chicken combo, grilled beef wrapped enoki mushroom, and takowasa. The takowasa came first, and for $5 it was quite good. The nori wasn't the best I've had, but it did its job in wrapping the raw octopus. It wasn't that spicy, but I prefer it that way as I'm not tolerant of spicy punches. The fried chicken combo came after, and while both styles of chicken were good, the sweet and spicy one is miles better than the regular one.
The sous-vide steak came after, and considering that was supposedly our main course I found it to be quite underwhelming. The steak they use was striploin, and while it was properly cooked I found it to be on the dry side. Since I'm used to steak being juicy and a bit on the thicker side, I definitely expected more from the hype. Finally, the beef wrapped enoki mushroom was mediocre at best, as it was wrapped extremely thin and all I tasted was charcoal.
Service was overall excellent.
While I admit the fried chicken was good, I'm quite sure there are other places in York Region/North Toronto that serve decent Korean style fried chicken too. Therefore I don't see myself returning here for the time being.
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