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| - Ugh, another terrible experience at another terrible chain restaurant to add to my Yelp repertoire. Please don't judge me, fellow Yelpers. I sacrifice myself to prevent you from enduring these dining experiences, I swear.
I was going to the symphony at the Toronto Centre for the Arts on a dreary Sunday afternoon. Moxies was relatively nearby, fat raindrops were falling from the sky, and I was hungry and looking for lunch. I resigned myself to eating at Moxies (sigh).
First of all, the place was nearly deserted, but it took the longest time for a server to show up and offer some drinks. I peered around the restaurant and saw no signs of life. I started getting very angry and began mentally formulating the terrible things I would write about the service at this so-called restaurant. We were in a rush, and I was ready to get up and leave. When he finally arrived at our booth, however, our server Tyler was really sweet and friendly. He called us pretty. I softened. After getting some water, it probably was at least another 30 minutes before we saw sweet, friendly Tyler again. For his part, he was super apologetic and explained that he was the only person working and told us that we didn't have to tip him and that he would put a rush on our orders. True to his word, our food came out fairly quickly. I ordered the Med Bread appetizer and some sort of strawberry spinach salad. The Med Bread came with three mysterious dips, one of which tasted like straight cream cheese with a shriveled clove of roasted garlic on top. Do not want. My salad was pretty sad and wilty, and my friend's salmon wrap came with three slices of eerily jaundiced looking tomatoes.
Overall, hardly one star, MOXIES. I'm only giving two stars because of Tyler, who noticed my friend was sniffling and ran around the entire restaurant trying to find "soft tissues" for her nose. He came back with two different varieties because one was softer than the other. Now that's service! I felt bad that he has to work at a place where management obviously doesn't seem to care as much. (And yes, I did tip him.) Maybe things wouldn't be so bad if they would staff accordingly (i.e. have more than one server working during lunch), but this place is on my blacklist from now on.
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