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| - I came here for a birthday group dinner on Sept 3rd (a Saturday) and as expected this place became pretty busy after 6pm. Many places in Vaughan are busy after 6pm on a Saturday night so that's no surprise.
The parking was pretty simple though. Being near Vaughan Mills there's lots of open space and I ended up getting one of the diagonal spots right in front. While this restaurant is near Vaughan Mills it's not inside the mall itself thankfully. That parking lot is a normally a gong show.
Being close to Vaughan Mills has a convenience factor though. It's not hard to find, there's substantial parking and generally it's not very hard to get to being close to highway 400 etc. The place is named 255 I'm guessing because their address is 255 Bass Pro Mills Drive.
The restaurant itself has a nice high ceiling and a dark look with soft lighting. The bar is located in a nice visual spot being sort of the front and center of the service area while the seating area is rather tight. Tables are really almost uncomfortably close together. Navigating/negotiating your way around the tables to get up, leave or go to the restroom could be considered hard to do considering the space allowance between tables.
I found the service to be rather attentive and friendly. The staff always seemed to be happy to serve or smiling if not making jokes but still remaining professional. The clearing of plates and drinks were well maintained as well.
The food I found to be about satisfactory. We had ordered salads, calamari friti, a gnocchi plate, and a couple pizzas. The salads were good and the calamari was very good. Salads were salad but the calamari was nicely done with a bit of a crunch to the batter with nice sized rings and tentacle pieces. I like the tentacle parts more than the rings and there was a nice quantity of each. The gnocchi I seemed to get bored of it pretty fast. It had a gorgonzola sauce which was thick and rich but I had wish it was even stronger with the cheese taste considering gorgonzola is very rich. The server had asked if I had wanted a sprinkle of parm on my gnocchi and I had said yes. I think she was worried that it would probably be too salty or rich for me? Nope, it was just fine even with the added cheese.
The pizzas were nice but nowhere near I had wished they'd be. Call me spoiled but I've had my fair share of pizza in my day and perhaps places like Libretto have spoiled me for what Italian pizza should be. Like a few other places I've had pizza in Vaughan, this pizza may use Italian ingredients but the crust while OK just doesn't meet Neapolitan closeness or the expectation of a place that is supposed to be more Italian that say Pizza Nova. Still, my wife enjoyed her white pizza with prosciutto while I had gone with the more spicier 'Nduja which also had arugula as a topping. The crust served here is thicker, harder and crunchier as opposed to a Neapolitan style being thinner, softer and chewier. The verdict is decent, but not superb.
While everything else about 255 is good or better than good the food for me is just a pass. While I can say it's not quite a 4 but better than a 3 perhaps a 3.5? I don't round up so it'll have to remain a 3 from me. The service was great and it's a nice place but it feels crowded inside because of their spacing of tables which is what make this place even out.
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