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| - Dropped by here in hopes that the Shops at Don Mills had another good food establishment opening up...boy was I both angry and disappointed. I should make it clear that I did drop by thier soft opening so I guess thier staff was kind of still working out the kinks but honestly it was one thing built on another that led to a total wreck. So let's start with the food.
El Chapo Street Corn: This dish is unbelievably salty, and the corn they use can no way be fresh as it honestly was more bland than sweet. The seasoning that they use is sodium overkill and I pretty much just brushed all the seasoning off. Mind you I have quite a savory pallette so this was quite a shock
Steamed Edamame: Not really too sure how you can screw up pre-cooked soybeans but this restaurant honestly figured it out. Overcooked and again extremely salty, if you order this dish either avoid it or add the lime to cut down some of that insane sodium.
Brisket MacNCheese: Not really a memorable dish at all, the MacNCheese, and the brisket was bland. I think they just sauced it up to try and save the dish.
Beef Slider: this dish was actually good..but at $5/pc for one mini sampler size burger...it was a bit expensive
Apple Maple Pork Belly: this dish honestly was quite gross, it was like they boiled the pork belly in the fat and smothered maple syrup on it. Extremely greasy and actually just gross
Cheeky Poutine: Soggy fries, bland cheese curds, again extremely salty gravy
Crispy Calamari: The Calamari itself was fine, the pickled red chili was useless to the dish and the chimchurri aioli was again very salty. I skipped the Aioli and just served with lime. Portions are a joke for this dish
Beer Battered Onion Rings: good crust....but again SALTY SALTY SALTY
Manhattan Cut Steak: ....simple don't order this dish
Spaghetti Carbonara: This dish was edible although way too creamy almost like it was an Alfredo sauce instead. The bacon in this dish was extremely chewy, the chicken was dry but hey at least they managed to cook the pasta al dente .
Bison Bolognese: all I remember was this dish was bland... unfortunately not memorable so I can't really recall all the flavors from my pallettes being destroyed from a that salt
Service: Now you're wondering...if the food didn't taste good why didn't I complain...well the thing is I would complain except service was so dodgey after placing our orders that no one really dropped by our table. Water didn't arrive till we reminded our server that she forgot it when our food was already coming out. I saw some people running food to our table including possibly 2 of the managers one female and one male...but it's ok there's empty dishes on our table and our drinks are empty but since you are the manager you don't need to attend your guest...or check on them. Maybe because we are asian? I don't know...but I am paying for the meal and I am trying my best to impress my guest with your beautiful restaurant but unfortunately you left them all with a rotting impression. Server did check up on us...but checking up on us every 2mins was a bit excessive espcially if you do it 10x in a row. However after she checked up on us she had clearly abandoned us after the barrage of check ups as she had forgotten my replacement plate, then forgot my utensil, then forgot my salt that I needed for my extremely bland steak, then forgot to clear dishes or refill my drinks. The manager did pass by and took a glance at our table....but clearly they are above all to help thier team clean up a bit. Our BLONDE waitress was quite clueless, fortunately I'll leave her name out and let management do some sort of work at least. By the way...usually when a manager comes to your table ESPCIALLY if your soft opening, possibly trying to make a good impression of the face of your restaurant, and your guest happens to order quite an assortment of food you should maybe ask how the whole experience was instead of BADGERING RUDELY SEVERAL QUESTIONS about the payment option of the guest? Again...do we really need another #StopRacialProfiling incident like what the Toronto location CactusClub just suffered? Not a single smile nor a single greeting from the manager when he came to our table. As I said maybe because we're Asian? I don't know? I wanted to complain about the food, but clearly the management didn't care about the guest experience so I didn't want to waste my time. I paid the bill, I left a generous tip (ask your waitress), you guys just left a very bad experience to some very nice guest I had. I took a gamble by trying your restaurant and unfortunately you took more then my money, you also stripped away my guest and I's respect.
Will I Repeat? Maybe if I wanted to take pictures of the inside of the restaurant...but dining in...after the sodium overkill and the racial profiling from the manager leaving my guest and I upset?
NO WAY AT ALL!!!
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