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| - I've been here a couple of times. I really want to like this place and have given it a few chances and am stopping. I'm going to write about my last visit. That was the best one.
Location:
In a food plaza in Markham. Close to the
404 and highway 7
Parking:
It's at the front of the plaza. Finding parking close to the restaurant can be really tricky. There's a tonne of parking behind. Like more parking than you will ever need. I'm a lazy git and a parking whisperer. I parked at the door. Yay.
Decor:
This place is nice. You can tell they cared about what it looks like. It looks like it was plucked from Yorkville and place in Thornhill. Gorgeous tiles, wood, open ceiling, large bar, great lighting. Nice!
Food:
If only the love extended to the food. Honestly this place is hit and miss with mostly misses.
So we got the bone marrow. $18 for a whole bone cut in half two sections and 6 tiny pieces of bread. Ok. This makes me mad. The damn hipsters. Bones are the scraps they sell for next to nothing and because it's 'cool' to eat offal we now have to pay freaking 18 bucks for a pathetic plate of scrap.
The waitress suggested the calamari when we discovered the pork belly was out. It was a hit. Yum. Worth the get
Ok. Octopus leg. What a compete gong show. I'm still angry. 15 bucks. For. Practically.Nothing. The 'leg' was 9 pieces of leg sitting on a piece of paper thin potato. In a sauce, can't forget that. I think it was at some point frozen, can't explain the texture. Normally ive had octopus that was Either quick cooked and kinda chewy or long cooked and tender. This was chewy and mushy. Mushy. Ugg
Cauliflower and kale salad. This was a home run.
Foie gras. Ok. 10 bucks for two pieces of spread shmeared with ground, not whole , foie. It had a mango thing on the top that was great. Also over powering. The whole bite tasted of mango, which was great because the foie spread was nothing to write home about. How do you ruin that? The bread it came on was lovely
Meatball _ tasted good. I noticed we had 5 of them and then saw later that the table next to ours only got 4. Weird
Striploin steak. Again. Disappointed. So tiny and tough and was sliced wrong which made it even tougher to chew. Thanks guys.
Paella. We got the tapagria paella. ( Friends wanted) The server asks you right away if you want it because it takes 45 to make. I've read in past reviews about how this was disappointing. I liked it. If we could get it like that again I would. The spice was amazing.
Spanish toast.- server suggestion. It took over 30 minutes to get. I'm not sure why. It's a piece of mushy bread topped with a melted sugar (brule) topping, caramel and whipped cream. Disappointing small. 10 bucks for a piece of bread. Of course it was delicious. Cover anything sweet with caramel and sugar and heck yeah. But 10 dollars? Not even close to worth it especially because of the wait.
Cost:
I rarely mention cost. I think you pay what you get for. I can't believe I'm complaining about it but yeah, it made me angry.
Service:
One server with someone she was training tagging along. Obviously someone who has never worked in the service industry before.
The main server was someone this establishment should never fire, in fact give her a raise. They can't afford for her to leave. This woman hustled to get people to buy more. She did a great job. She's a bit older than most that I have seen there and experience is a virtue.
But man it was slow getting food. We were there from 5 to 8:30. There was also a guy there but apparently he was bar only, so he basically just poured wine from the bottle that the one table ordered. Hey, don't help out anywhere else..
Conclusion.
In case you didn't get it. I'm never going back. Can't and won't recommend it
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