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| - Many restaurants come and go in suburbia, but Terra has been serving fine food for over 15 years and rightfully so. You really don't have to go downtown to have a nice quality dining experience, though there so many more choices. It has been a long, long time since I have been to Terra and my last visit there was pretty good.
Terra does a "Sundaylicious" pre-fixe menu for $39 which includes a choice of appetizer, main, and dessert. So I went on a Sunday to try it out. The Sundaylicious menu seem to attract the neighborhood crowd but it was surprisingly not very busy. The items on the Sundaylicious menu were a few selected items from their regular menu and a few specially prepared dishes. For some reason I didn't find the items on the Sundaylicious that inspiring (their menu changes based on sasonal ingrdients, so I must have been there at the wrong time) -- I suggest going with the choices with the supplemental charges, it is well worth it. The kitchen were out of the bison carpaccio, which I was disappointed, however the heavenly rich seared fois gras more than made up for it.
Terra's wine list is lengthy with a good selection of bottles of all price ranges.
Service was very good and attentive.
The food is well prepared and the ingredients are very fresh and good quality. The dishes were good straight forward American/Italian food without any silly ethnic fusions or cliché plating. The amuse bouche at the start of the meal and the sorbetto pallate cleanser before the main were well appreciated.
The prices may seem very expensive for a suburban restaurant, but for those living in the York Region area it beats dealing with traffic and parking going to a restaurant downtown and there are very few fine places to dine like Terra in this neck of the woods. So it is actually well worth it.
My only gripe is that the decor of the restaurant is looking very tired and dated. Slate floors, multi-coloured glass partitions and knick-knacks, boldly coloured leather and velvet chairs, swirly motifs, venetian plaster walls, and busy lighting looks more like a glorified 90's Starbucks café than a sophisticated relaxing restaurant.
Their tapas menu looks really good, so I will probably go back to try it out next time.
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