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| - Passed by this place a few times on the streetcar, always intrigued by their summery feel and cute decor. Having just gotten back from Cali, Colombia (although I know that these 2 things have absolutely nothing to do with each other), the name just spoke to me - I have to try this place out...and soon!
Definitely cute decor. Right down to the washrooms. The place is clean and bright with cute/cheesy sayings - depending on how you look at it - plastered up against the walls. It was about 9 o'clock on a Thursday night - pretty steady looking with a person or 2 occupying most of the tables. Although we took a while deciding what we wanted (everything sounded heavenly), we were able to order right away. The girl behind the counter even had a second to explain a bit of the menu to us after having asked if it was our first visit. Deciding on the confident and the divine, my boyfriend and I placed our $40 (eek!) order and took our seats patiently waiting while it was being prepared.
This is where my dear Cali Love loses a solid star. We get called up to the counter, not once, but twice, to let us know they are out of a different ingredient each time. The first was an easy switch - so easy that I don't even remember what was missing, just that the girl offered edammame in place of it and I was fine with it. And the second was a little more devastating - pomegranate which, oddly enough, was the deciding factor in me choosing this particular one over another I was drooling over back when I was making my choices. Which would have been an appropriate time to know about these missing ingredients. However, given the situation, the staff were pretty accommodating and we did receive an extra topping for 1 of the bowls.
The bowls were pretty good. Just not $16 good. Visually appealing, flavorful, fresh, healthy and I just love the extra crunch the toppings at the end added to both dishes. We had to go up and ask for some sort of extra sauce for one of the bowls as we found it to be lacking and a bit dry but the girl made the perfect suggestion and voila, heavenly it was. The piece of salmon on the grain bowl was TINY and although both my guy and I were completely stuffed after sharing the two large-size bowls, I found myself wishing through certain bites that there was more salmon to pleasantly accompany the other flavors. Either way, I'd be back and I'm not about to say I wouldn't order a dish with salmon on it again.... The blessing in disguise of my dear Cali Love is that these are all fresh ingredients you can easily find here in T.O. and if you love to cook like I do, you can eat about 5 different variations of your favorite bowl directly out of your own kitchen for probably half the price! Amen.
Overall, this place is definitely on the health food kick and fits into your "new year, new me" 2018 mantra. Hurry though, you never know how long the smoothie bowl craze will be 'in' for.
Oh, and it was damn wasabi they were out of. (Perhaps, the very thing my bowl was lacking).
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