I have been debating with my self on writing about my experience at Alo for more than four months and now I am doing it.
I wanted to go here for over a year since I heard a lot about it and the hype was to the roof, so my girlfriend made a booking 2 months a head and there we go the night finally arrived.
We walked in and were greeted by the hostes at the elevator and another hostes at the restaurant who took our coats and showed us our table. First thing I noticed was 3 empty table and till end of the night they were all empty. Apparently they are not that busy anymore so no more 2 months reservation is required. Also with DNR app you can make same night reso.
Server was very friendly but he was not very knowledgeable and helpful. He offered us to get two different set of the tasting menu to be able to try everything so we did so. The menu was 10 courses. For drinks we got couple cocktails including one from their older menu.
Drinks were good but nothing special. Food start coming out and the portions were super tiny (1 to maximum 3 bites) which is normal for tasting. Unfortunately until end of all the savoury dishes both of us were still hungry. So we received three courses of dessert which made us think we are kind of full for at least 15 min because of all the sugar.
We paid $110/person only for the food before tax & tip. The saddest part, Chef/owner Patrick Kriss is when we walked out, we had to cross the Spadina and go to Mc donalds and get a big mac. As a chef that is so painful for me that my guest walk out hungry and get a big mac.
Unfortunately because of the hype around Alo no one cares about anything else. I have eat in many starred restaurants around the world and Alo is not even close to any of them.
I definitely will not go back to Alo since there are many better fine dinning in Toronto.