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| - I dunno. There's a lot of hype about this place, so maybe my expectations were too high. We went on Sunday around 3 in the afternoon. It was the last Sunday of the month, which means that Kensington Market is closed to pedestrians and there are even more people around than usual, and this restaurant was crazy busy. The person taking the orders was friendly and very efficient which made me think it wouldn't be that long a wait, but it turns out they're very efficient at taking your money and really super, super inefficient at providing the food. We had a long, long wait for our fish tacos, which were really ordinary. They use mahi mahi, which is a very solid and not very flavourful fish. There's a fair amount of batter, and I couldn't help thinking "this is a Captain Highliner fish stick plopped on a taco". The fixings on the taco were unremarkable - some raw cabbage and a white sauce. In theory you can add your own hot sauce, but two of the bowls of hot sauce were empty, and when I asked one of the people who were preparing the tacos if there was any chance of getting them filled up he made it clear that wasn't going to happen.
This place seems to be a victim of its own success. It's too popular, they can't keep up with the volume either in terms of preparing the food in a reasonable amount of time or in terms of maintaining consistently good quality.
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