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| - By far, the best meal I have had in Toronto since this summer.
If you have not been to Elm Tree Restaurant yet, I implore you to make a trip this weekend. It's located right near Bay and Elm Street, snug in the row of restaurants. It's hard to peer into the restaurant if you were just walking by, and to be honest, if not for the Yelp reviews I probably wouldn't have ever eaten here.
The modern-Mediterranean restaurant is family run and the servers are very friendly and accommodating. A true 5 stars for service, which unfortunately is quite rare in Toronto. The servers were very attentive and showed a genuine interest in ensuring our dining experience was perfect.
Dinner starts out with complimentary homemade bread with garlic and olive oil. Bread is really well done and the dip was extremely fresh and fragrant.
The Braised Moroccan Style Lamb Shank was almost ungodly delicious. Very tender, intricately flavourful: a non-ending mouthful of goodness. The lamb also came with couscous, carrots, onions and dried figs.
I also tried their Pork Chop with fingerling potatoes confit in duct fat, sautéed oyster king and button mushrooms with madeira sauce. Once again, absolutely impeccably made.
I couldn't recommend this restaurant enough! Prices are fair, around the $30 range.
For its affordability and quality of food, the Elm Tree Restaurant really puts all other fine dining restaurants to shame in the neighbourhood.
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