One word: MEH. This place is a huge disappointment. All of the other Kabuth restos I've eaten in have excellent service and food that matches the price. We didn't even try the tacos because - $35-45 for TACOS?!?! When Toronto has an amazing authentic taco scene? I don't know what they were thinking.
Anyway. Onto the food and service. When we arrived for our 7:30 reservation there were maybe 4 other tables of people. I ordered a glass of wine -a very small pour, may I add, for $16. It took far too long for the wine to come and our menus were closed and ready to order. The server dropped the wine at the table and rushed on, not asking or giving us a chance to say we were ready to order. 10 min later We ordered and shared a bunch of appetizers.
Roast mushrooms $12: meh. They were ok. Quite salty
Beet salad $16: small serving for price. Flavourful strawberries but the flavours lacked any depth so tasted flat when trying all elements of dish in a mouthful.
Beef tartare $18: worst tartare I've ever had. It came with 5 stale tasting corn chips and the beef was flat all over the plate. No attempt at presentation. And the beef smelled...off...you know that smell when you open a wrapper of beef from the supermarket and it has that blood soaked pad under it? That pad is what the beef smelled like. I couldn't eat more than one serving because of the smell.
Charcoal roasted shrimp $19: this was by far the best dish but with 2 fairly large and 1 much smaller shrimp to the total of 3 shrimp - zero value.
Tuna ceviche $18: this was the next best dish and had a lot of brilliant flavour and I loved the sweet little bites of watermelon. However this also came with 5 stale corn chips.
I would have returned the tartare to the kitchen if we had had any level of service checking in on us but we ate our meal with no one even asking if we were enjoying it. At that point I'd given up and was somewhat testing them.
For the above meal with one measly under-poured glass of wine, we paid just over $130 including tip for two people. Even the view and decor could not draw me back when I could have much better taco/Mexican a 5-10 minute walk away that would include margaritas for under $100.