It was Canada Day and I was hanging with my two friends(they are both Korean-Canadian like myself) around Kensington. It was one of the few places that was open, so we decided to check it out.
Food: We had mercanti salad, stagioni pizza(thin crust, had tomato sauce with veggies and ham). My friend had an Italian soda while I and my other friend had just water.
Although the pizza was soft and had fresh ingredients as toppings, everything was sliding off when we tried to cut it and eat the slices. Toppings were just thrown sparingly and so eating slices while toppings were sliding down was not fun.
Heads-up: this pizza is quite salty! So I would recommend you to order pizza with olive oil, or pizza with tomato sauce without ham.
Service: The waiter greeted us with a warm smile when we entered the restaurant. We noticed that we were the only Asians in this place, but that didn't bother us. There were about 8 other people dining around us.
After, he took our orders and brought them to us. That was pretty much the end of the service. No re-filling water(mine was almost empty!), checking to see if we needed anything....that would've been very nice, especially because one of my friends has never been to Kensington before.
We just felt like we were ignored for the entire dinner. The waiter would go around and check on other people(they were Caucasians), but would not bother to come around to check on us. My friends were so bitter by the end of the meal that they just wanted to pay for the meal and get out of there a.s.a.p.
I love Kensington, but I won't be back here. My friends felt that the waiter avoided us, and I felt like I was a ghost sitting in this place.