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| - I went with Melinda M to this place last night also. It was my second time there, and it's definitely a unique experience.
We were a group of around 15 and arrived around 8 to a table set with about 40 dishes of shrimp cocktail, pickled herring, large plates of smoked salmon, beet salad, chicken pates, caesar salad, caviar and mini-pancakes, and much, much more. The table also had wine and little carafes of vodka that we had purchased earlier and given to the restaurant earlier in the day.
We started eating and the servers just keep bringing more food as we ate. The food was good but I'd agree that the appetizers were better than the mains, although I didn't eat many mains because I was full of the early dishes.
The crazy part of this place really starts around 9 when a band goes on that is part russian folk, part 80s hair-band, part wedding band, and plays a mixture of all those types of music. And people dance like it's a wedding night.
It's definitely somewhere Torontonians should try, but go as a group. Much more fun that way.
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