Safari used to be one of my favourite places when they first opened up. I have eaten here many times food in my opinion is hit and miss both in value and taste. They have great burgers and wings however I have been dissapointed when ordering anything else.
The prices of food at Safari are pretty expensive I believe they really are trying to seem like an upscale restaurant.
The reasons I have begun to dislike Safari over the years and no longer go are as such:
They have a restaurant style upstairs and downstairs they have billiards a bar and even a small dance floor on weekends which they now charge cover for every weekend and I haven't been in a while but Safari can be very hit or miss on weekends. Before when there was no cover it was this way but it really turned out annoying when you would come on a Saturday and the place was dead but you were paying cover to get in, I could understand this just not in Ajax.
They used to always have the downstairs open and pool used to be free (with drink or food purchase) Tuesday - Thursday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM and free all day on Sunday after 5:00 PM - The problem with this was it seemed that only 25% of the staff actually knew about it. I can't tell you how many times the person behind the bar would argue with me that they have never heard of free pool only to go upstairs and have to come down and apologize. If it happened once or twice it would have been more understandable but it honestly happened 5-6 times.
The final straw for me and Safari was the complete lack of consistency of the downstairs being open it became completely hit or miss whether it would open and was a waste of the gas to find out of we could play pool. And the crazy thing is all it would take is 1 person to serve people down there.
Anyway this review got long... Safari used to be great although pricey, now it's just pricey.