Located on the trendy restaurant row of King St West in Toronto, Cibo Wine Bar is quite an interesting experience for either the dining and the restaurant. Walking in your surrounded by Crystal Head vodka bottles lining each of the wood walls of the entrance way and the impressive glass walled wine cellar. We were sat in the bar/dining area of the restaurant. Warm wood tones, glass, comfortable seating added to the ambiance. As soon as our party arrived our server was friendly and informative about drink and wine selections. They have a pretty long wine list of wine served by the glass. I looked at the bar and I saw that they used a temperature controlled wine dispensing and storage unit. All the wine is exactly poured to the ounce and it is served at its optimal temperature for the best wine experinece, even by the glass.
Our table of 7 ordered 4 different appetizers. The Arracini (rice balls stuffed with mozzerlla), polenta fries with gorgonzola dip (corn meal deep fried), polpettine ( mini meat balls in tomato sauce) and a house salad with balsamic dressing. Our server took our order and dropped off fresh foccaica bread to nibble on. The foccaia was so fresh that I could have eaten it all night, perfectly seasoned and very tasty. Our table ordered entree's consisting of various pizzas and pastas. Most of the pastas are made fresh in house. I can always appreciate a restaurant that does this because you can really taste the difference. Our server was excellent and kept regular table checks to make sure our drinks and foccaia was full.
After about 25 min our meals arrived all together and we were treated to great flavors of the thin crusted pizzas and fantastic pasta's. As we finished our tables were pre-bussed and our table ordered desserts ranging from lemon ricotta cheese cake to a chocolate baci bombe. Our experience was finally complete by the manager coming by to make sure we enjoyed our time at Cibo. I had an excellent experience and it seems that we are already making plans to come back for Mothers Day.