Please Please stay away from this restaurant.. I only ever put up reviews if I am extremely happy or very dissatisfied and in this case I was horrified. I've only ever had one other bad dining experience since living in Toronto but this place really takes the biscuit.
First of all I went here with my family whom were visiting from Ireland and decided to take them to Toronto island, ward island in particular. We walked around quite a bit and decided to go for a nice lunch and we seen the Rectory Cafe.
Its has a really nice patio but that's about it. There was a fuss from the very beginning because there were 9 of us. They discussed in front of us what they were going to do with us like it was a major issue.
We were seated by the rudest server I have ever met in my life. He was extremely short and impatient. Firstly my partner asked for a different bun with his burger as he doesn't like pretzel buns and wanted a basic bun but was told that if he changes one thing he would have to change it for others and it would be a major inconvenience to the kitchen... this place wasn't even half full and i am sure changing a bun isn't a big deal. I then asked for a gluten free bun and was told simply no in a short answer and left kinda sitting there... He was extremely smug.. then he continued down the table with short outbursts of rudeness until the final order came FROM my partners father....The waiter said if he was not ready to order he had other things to do and he was busy... Now when i say my partners father took literally 10 seconds to pick what he wanted that's all he took... Everyone look at him and were horrified by his rudeness... I turned to him and asked him was he being serious and told him he was extremely rude and we came to enjoy a nice lunch and he basically ruined it. He then asked if I would like another server and I replied yes...This man was also the manager and even what I have described above doesn't even describe or cover the rudeness I experienced. The next server was pretty nice and she even smiled.... but brought our drinks orders at the end of the meal but she took them from our bill which was appreciated.
Then I went to use their restroom... It was disgusting.. bins overflowing with dirty hand towels.. Dirty toilets and the flusher was also broken.. It just seemed very unclean.. As people generally say judge the cleanliness of a restaurant and kitchen on the cleanliness of their restroom and this restroom said it all.
Never go here they don't deserve the buissiness