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| - Sometimes Yelp fails me. No, not This restaurant - Moxie's was fine and "Yay! I'm a fan." But before I review it, let me tell you why I was an unhappy Yelper before finding Moxie's...
While in the area on business, I Yelp'd for the most-reviewed/best-rated place and we settled on an dim sum place nearby. Upon entering the unnamed restaurant, we realized that we might be in over our heads. As the only non-Asians, we were NOT "warmly greeted" and while we waited for someone to do so, I perused the menu slash checked out the stuff in the fish tanks. We decided we were not up for this adventure. Maybe when we had someone to guide us....
Never-the-less, there are easily 12 other restaurants in proximity - one of every food genre. To play it safe, we ended up at Moxie's based on my coworker's previous good experience at another location.
Basically, IMHO, Moxie's is a higher-end TGIFridays/Chili's/Applebees. It is not as nice as The Keg, but I think the food at Moxie's is much better. There are many signature items on their menu - we tried seared Tuna on a taro chips and it was both yummy and unique.
For dinner, I had the short-rib burger, which was probably 2000 calories with the cheese, sauteed onions, mayo on a buttered bun - but it WAS delicious.
Our server, Kirsten/Kristen?, was attentive and bubbly. I feared this might be another "breastaurant" when we entered because most of the servers and hostesses are cute, young girls AND the place was loaded with guys eating. BUT, there are some guys who work here and the girls really work hard together. In a little while, there were tables of girls eating together and overall is was a good crowd for a Monday night in the YYZ'burbs. We did not sit on the patio, but this was a mistake because everyone else who came in wanted to sit out there.
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