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| - Mum and I last night (Sat) were walking the town and freezing so we stopped here. I've been before with a group of maybe 15 people after the Aretha Franklin concert across the street.
I like the setup, we chose to sit in the dining room, away from the bar and subsequent ruckus. Nice large booths, good decor a million tvs everywhere, one at each booth. I do agree with the other interview that if you are going to 'watch' the game, then prob best not to do it here after 7/8pm on a weekend. It seems the music is more important than the sound for the game.
Food & Drinks:
We were drinking hot tea the whole night, besides the topper missing of the top of the tea pot, it was fine.
Apps:
We ordered the bruschetta, and man was I surprised. I figured it would be some mini baguette, over toasted so rough I would lose a few taste buds but it wasn't. These were 8 large pieces of bread, toasted with diced tomatoes, red onions, crumbled feta cheese and some drizzlings of a white cream sauce and a dark brown sauce. It was a surprisingly nice portion size, presentation and taste.
Entrees:
I ordered the Angus Beef Top Sirloin - medium w/ rice and vegetables. The rice tasted fine, but like it was a mixture of Uncle Ben's packaged rice with some regular unflavored rice. This I personally don't mind, I do it all the time at home. But just thought it should be noted. The steak was pinker than expected for medium, but I'm ok with that cause better to under cook than over (you can always put it back on the grill but can't less cook a well-done steak. The steak taste was nice, it was fresh as in not rolled or covered in a salt-based dry rub of some sort. As for tenderness...eh was a long chew, but I guess my mastication exercises are done for the week. Worst part of my entree was the veges....There was no flavor to them, clearly the product of a frozen packages so I had to dip them in the sauce drizzled over the bruschetta.
Mum ordered the Blackened Chicken and Shrimp Diablo. Her shrimp was excellent! It was perfectly cooked and well flavored. The chicken looked great and tasted just good. The dry rub had really great flavors but had too much salt in its mix. Albeit it wasn't alot of chicken, it wouldn't have been a problem if the rub had been better. The bed of pasta all of it was served on, was pasta. It was nice. Really her shrimps were nice I wanted to steal them off her plate. Alas I resisted the urge....this time.
Service:
Was good. Hostess was sweet and joked with us when she caught on to my joking with her about something even though she was a little busy. Our service was also sweet and apparently got really busy when her party of 10 turned into 18. We didn't even notice til she told us at the end cause she still did rush by even now and again, but also had her colleague look after us so we weren't bothered by it.
Atmosphere:
I mentioned it a little above. It is called a sports bar, buut I think it is more restaurant/bar. The dining room section does have a tv at every booth, but no volume. I hear the bar area doesn't turn the volume and there was a big hockey game on last night (TO vs Vancouver - TO last badly 2-6). They started turning the nightclub music up as time went by, but as I noticed the last time I came it doesn't really turn over into a dance bar/club. So whats the point of making the music the number priority, I don't know.
Waiters/resses/Host/ess - they are all nice, but I'm not a fan of looking to my left and seeing a hostess wipe down a booth table and not realize her whole 'under'world is exposed because her 'uniform' dress/skirt is too ridiculously short. I guess that's for the guys and ladies who swing that way.... Enjoy fellas
Bang for Buck?
Umm, yea. Considering prime location in Toronto, food portion, atmosphere produced, food taste etc yea. For the two of us it was $55.55 . Over my normal price range, but gotta treat the mum one in a while. This did not include alcohol nor dessert. Will I go back, sure, probably for lunch instead .
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