I was very surprised about my wonderful experience at the Richmond Hill Jack Astor's, since all of my previous experience at various Jack Astor's (Yonge/Dundas or Yonge/Bloor) was mediocre at best. I decided to give this a shot after receiving a $10 off coupon in the mail.
On a busy Saturday, I was able to immediately get a booth at the bar area, which was right beside the dining room.
My sister and I got the small beef nacho board to start. She got the fish & chips and I ordered the chicken fingers with a side of veggies.
The beef nacho was more like oversized hor d'oeuvres than your conventional nachos. It had all the toppings laid on top of 6 large individual chips and you eat each like a flat hard taco. The flavours were great, the peppers and onion gave it a nice kick and there was a mix of textures in every bite.
I enjoyed the chicken fingers, very tender, almost couldn't tell it was white meat. (Other Jack locations served dry dry chicken fingers) The veggies weren't frozen like mainly similar franchised chains. The fish and chips were also decent - fish nice and crisp, well seasoned and not too "fishy".
Service wasn't the greatest, our waitress wasn't extremely attentive, but the amount of wait time was reasonable.
I would like to come again to try other stuff.