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| - Allow me to offer a eulogy for Ten Restaurant, which closed last weekend and is now under new ownership, via a pair of buyers who plan to renovate the space and open another restaurant in the future.
The opening of Ten Restaurant ten years ago was a BIG DEAL. Whatever you may think of Door Fifty-Five now and the new "trendy" part of Port Credit, Ten was the trailblazer that set the pace for everything that followed. It was the place to go if you were young and wanted to fit in somewhere. Great menu items, very classy atmosphere, beautiful patio overlooking the Village Square, the works.
I have many fond memories of this place. I used to come here every so often for business meetings or hangouts with friends, but there were other instances that stick in my memory. Inadvertently walking into a private dinner for the Miss Canada contestants participating in the Port Credit Canada Day festivities and seeing them all say hello to me in unison. Listening to an older friend of mine relate a story about how he was accosted by two prostitutes in the middle of the day, begging for him to give them money. Having a female comedian use me as the punchline for jokes in the middle of a crowd of women. Fun times.
Yet Ten slipped over the years and eventually became a shell of its former self. Menu items tasted bland and unappealing. Service was lacking - I remember an instance where my friends and I waited for two hours last year just to get our bills because the servers had mysteriously disappeared.
You were the chosen one! It was your ball to drop, and you dropped it hard. I can't quite place my finger on any root cause, but the experience fell across the board. Weirdly, I wasn't nearly as broken up over the restaurant's closing as some others who attended the closing party last week were. Maybe that has to do with the fact that standards slipped so far that the place eventually became a shell of itself, The place just seemed cold and empty every time I passed.
I'm waxing poetic, but I think it's a good thing overall that they closed before things got much worse. I had known for a while that the owners were looking to shutter it, and I realized that it was high time for it to be put down.
Maybe the new owners will come back with a bigger and better restaurant. It's a prime piece of real estate, and that plaza deserves a five-star dining experience.
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