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| - Friday night, I went to Sidecar for dinner with two friends. Overall, I was incredibly pleased with our dining experience there. The service itself gives this review fives stars, because if I could, I'd give our waiter a 10/5 alone. He was friendly, knowledgable and super accommodating.
We were probably the worst table ever: My friend had a lot of food change requests, and I actually ordered the wrong thing from the menu without realizing it. Without batting an eyelash, our waiter not only got the kitchen to whip up the dish I MEANT to order, but he quickly replaced the food my friend was served with the right dishes (she has asked for both dressing on the side for the salad, and no butter on the fish due to an allergy). We had both replacements in under 2 minutes. Wow!
The food itself was great, though not out of this world. We were given an 'amuse bouche' of tuna cakes to start - they weren't great. They were actually pretty terrible, but it was free, so I won't focus too much on it.
One of my friends ordered the Sidecar Salad and the Seared Rainbow Trout. I had a taste of both and they were delicious. My other friend ordered the Poutine - again, I had a taste and it was fantastic. I had the Papardelle (the dish I meant to order, oy) and it was so, very good. The hazelnuts were a very interesting choice in the dish, and made it something special. The Pinot Grigio we ordered to go with our food was also delicious.
Near the end of our meal, our waiter approached us and let us know that, if we wanted, there was a table upstairs at the Toronto Temperance Society (a member-only venue; memberships costs approx. $300 a year) that we could have. We immediately said yes, as a couple of us had been there before and really liked the vibe. I had no idea that Sidecar was part of the TTS, to be honest, nor that they could offer us access to this venue. We had several drinks upstairs and it was just a fantastic cap to the night.
Thank you so much, Sidecar, for a great dinner and night!
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