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| - I feel bad giving this place such a bad review based on my experience a couple of months ago, and never usually dislike places this much, but here I am. I am a resident of the Bloor/Kingsway area in which this restaurant is situated. Now if you know the strip of Bloor where this restaurant is, you know that every second place is a restaurant, and they are all pretty busy. With the selection of restaurants in this area and other Italian restaurants in Etobicoke (just go to La Veranda around the corner!!) I don't know how this place stays open based on my experience. There is just so much better Italian in Etobicoke to be had.
Anyways, I have been here twice. The first time was something like 2 or 3 years ago with a friend for a casual dinner and I think I may have had a salad or something. I don't really remember my experience, I just remember I wasn't unhappy with it and generally enjoyed the experience and decor of the restaurant. But this review isn't based on that.
So a couple of months ago my boyfriend and I were craving Italian and wanted to go somewhere close by. I wanted to go somewhere new and my boyfriend hadn't been there before. Being a creature of habit, he wanted to go to La Veranda around the corner which is an Etobicoke failsafe of ours but I insisted on coming to Sempre.
My boyfriend went to culinary school and is a sous chef at a very busy Italian restaurant in Toronto and he really found the menu to be lacking. He wasn't super hungry and ordered a pizza. I ordered a pasta (don't remember what it originally was now) which took a super long time to come (even though it wasn't very busy), and when it finally came out I noticed that it really did not seem to match the description of the pasta that I had ordered. I recall that when giving my order to the waitress she seemed slightly confused with what I had asked for even though what I had ordered was right there on the menu, and I didn't ask for it with any changes or anything. I recall the pasta I originally had ordered was supposed to have a white sauce and the one I received had a rose sauce, as well as being tortellini. I was honestly so hungry at that point and not one to complain anyways that I just decided to eat it. Well, if what I had received had turned out to be good I wouldn't have been too unhappy but I honestly would equate the pasta and sauce to some crappy wedding banquet hall food. The tortellini had no flavour and tasted like something I could have boiled at home from a package from Costco. The pasta was definately not made in house. The sauce was probably the worst part and made me dislike it so much. It was just too thick, had no flavour, and just so reminescent of crappy banquet hall food and generally unpleasant. The pizza was not up to par of what you would expect to find from an Italian resto in Toronto, had not much sauce and the crust wasn't great.
There are tons of options along the Bloor strip, if you really want Italian skip this and go to La Veranda around the corner.
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