Ugh. What utter garbage. For all its bells and whistles, Ursa is another over-priced, over-hyped Queen West Resto, where the pretentious trust fund babies go to blow money on bland, mildly interesting food.
First off, let me start by saying, I was ready to spend money. I WANTED to spend money and I wanted to be impressed. We first were seated at the bar; but as soon as we took our seats the bar-tender (who was really the only pleasant part of the entire night, as he kind of resembled a poor-man's Daniel Craig) told us we would have to leave at 10:30 since the DJs would need those seats. we took the chance.
I ordered Mulled Wine, which was luke warm and bland. totally not what i expected. my companian ordered a virgin drink that she described as tasting like ice-cold lemonade.
once we were ready to order, the bar tender told us he wasnt going to take dinner orders from us until and unless he found somewhere to move us. we sat there hungry for 30 minutes, until a table opened up.
once seated, again, we ordered the raw bread and butter and the tofu dish.
well the raw bread and butter was 4 pieces of crumbly and thin crackers and about half a teaspoon of two different kinds of butter...WTF? for an entire $5.00 that was unaccaptable. considering the city's top restaurants like One, Bymark, Le Select, La Societe, provide bread for FREE. its something you have wine with while you wait for the apps and the mains to come...
we were dissapointed but held out hope for Tofu... but we were dissapointed.
for a $14.00 dish there were three small cubes of deep fried tofu, on top of a bland non-tasting foam... again, Im a vegetarian and sadly eat a lot of tofu though its not good for me... I've gotten pacakged Tofu from Wholefoods for 5 bucks that tasted better than what i was given at Ursa AND it feeds me for TWO DAYS.
we left. dissapointed, hungry and $50.00 short.
at least i didnt feel obligated to tip much since the service on top of the food was HORRIBLE....
TERRIBLE experience, save your money and pretension for a place that deserves it.