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| - Earls is located in the financial district at the corner of King and York streets. I came here to meet a friend for dinner and watch some playoff hockey during the work week.
I arrived about 5PM and this place was already packed. The patio was standing room only and luckily my friend had arrived early and snagged us a table, otherwise I think we would have been in for a long wait. Earls is a businessey sports bar, lots of tvs everywhere and lots of suits to match. Pay attention to the tips here - you get shitty service if you're not in a suit. Our server was an airhead to begin with but she really didn't care to do much in terms of serving us, which was bad for her since we easily had over $70 in alcohol alone.
I ended up getting a margarita and had two of them... although they didn't taste like too much, they went down just fine ;) . Eventually we got a hold of our waitress to order some appetizers (we started off with drinks and weren't looking to be rushed but we could NOT catch her) and ended up with the baby calamari served with tzaziki. The calamari came out and were a good temperature, nice and crispy and teeny little rings. Very good for picking at with a friend. The tzaziki sucked though. It was basically yogurt and cucumber chunks, nothing special and overall, the the dish just lacked for me.
After we wrangled down our server again, we ordered dinner. I ended up getting the cajun chicken caesar and my friend ordered the steak. He specifically asked not to get the potatoes because he wouldn't eat them and they'd just go to waste. Lo and behold, our food came out and there was the side. Not a huge deal but he wasn't too impressed. My salad was fine, the caesar part of it was nothing special, but the cajun chicken was tasty. The massive piece of bread I got was good but it was overwhelming on the plate and just too much bread for one person.
Given that we arrived a few hours before playoffs and that people weren't really watching the game much here, I can only attribute so much of the ridiculously loud atmosphere to the game. I think this is generally a hot spot in the financial district but for me, it was far too loud in the bar area and we were yelling at each other all night. Unfortunately, with the wait, my friend didn't have too much choice as to where we got a table and we did prefer to have the tvs to watch the game.
The service here pretty much sucked. Our server would walk by our table and head to tables with adequately dressed men (I work in an office so my attire was nothing to shake a stick at and so does my friend) and ignored us until we made eye contact. She didn't listen, didn't pay attention to our orders and I was generally unimpressed.
Overall, not a place I would recommend to anyone. I hear they have great food but nothing on the menu stuck out as "wow I need to try that" and the general atmosphere wasn't inviting. If I come back, I'll try the dining room, but this will not make my list of places to try again anytime in the near future.
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