Eating out Toronto, Consistent Disappointment

[bluetors]

I tried a new restaurant and they had this brilliant concept that I had seen before but totally forgot about.

They bring you your meal but also a bread basket on the side with butter. So incase your meal is short for your specific appetite: perhaps you were busy shovelling snow, washing your car, or running other physical errands right before heading out to eat, thus need a little bit more food but not a whole 2nd meal. This has you covered. It customizes to your appetite, something that can't be taken care of with Menu Style Ordering. Someone said order appetizers too but again, you don't know how much you need, without seeing what it looks like.

And no, running off to Tim Hortons to grab a donut or timbit after is not the same. That's more like a Dessert. These are bread balls, carbohydrate, they feed. Dessert is more like a treat.

 

[Resetset]

I tried a new restaurant and they had this brilliant concept that I had seen before but totally forgot about.

They bring you your meal but also a bread basket on the side with butter. So incase your meal is short for your specific appetite: perhaps you were busy shovelling snow, washing your car, or running other physical errands right before heading out to eat, thus need a little bit more food but not a whole 2nd meal. This has you covered. It customizes to your appetite, something that can't be taken care of with Menu Style Ordering. Someone said order appetizers too but again, you don't know how much you need, without seeing what it looks like.

And no, running off to Tim Hortons to grab a donut or timbit after is not the same. That's more like a Dessert. These are bread balls, carbohydrate, they feed. Dessert is more like a treat.

It's a trick! They fill you up with cheap bread so you walk out after your meal feeling full. You should go back to that place and tell them you're wise to their scam. They might give you a free meal to keep you as a returning customer.

 

[hamermill]

Same as eating out juicy pussy. Some are 5 star Michelin, some are street meat quality.

5 star hotels yes. The highest number of Michelin stars a restaurant can be awarded is 3.

 

[bluetors]

It's a trick! They fill you up with cheap bread so you walk out after your meal feeling full. You should go back to that place and tell them you're wise to their scam. They might give you a free meal to keep you as a returning customer.

Better than being served either small portions or cardboard. Leaving a restaurant hungry is not fun. You wanna move on with your day. Not run to Circle K looking for a snack. It's very annoying. To be honest, not always their fault because impossible to gauge a customer's appetite.

That's why I love those Self serve and pay per weight/item places in US/EU. Only get what you need. Sometimes it's not much. In that scenario, you don't have to order a full meal and discard 35%. I ate Farmboy style in the US for 7 years so I'm just starting to get used to this "normal" way.

 

[explorerzip]

They bring you your meal but also a bread basket on the side with butter.

What you stumbled on is quite common. A number of restaurants give you some bread just after you order. You'll definitely see some sort of bread at Greek and Italian places and that goes for chains or independents. East Side Mario's has unlimited soup/salad and bread when you eat in. The middle-eastern place called Paramount gives you puffed up pita bread. Hell, even Swiss Chalet meals have that lousy excuse of a dinner roll.

 

[moredale7]

Go out to lunch or dinner, almost always, the server fucks up portion size, or maybe, it's their standard shrinkflation portion size, and not enough food to feed.

I walk out pretty hangry and unsure what to do. Any tips how ppl avoid this? Order 2 meals, eat 1, and a bit of 2nd and then have leftovers?

Also, why are all the Pizza chains in this city cardboard food? I finally found a decent non chain pizza place, had a bit, it was SOOOO GOOD, ate the served portion, 4 slices, 8", but guess what, wrong size! I needed 6 slices. Since I couldn't see the food before ordering, I got fucked again, and I started sweating profusely (body fat loss) and subsequently electrocuted in the brain. Not fun.

When I travel overseas, eating out is fun. They have the food laid out, like in Germany or Italy, even many UK/US places, you can visualize it, and order how much you want and are rarely disappointed.

Whether it's pizza slices or rice/chicken, pasta, whatever, it's right there in front of you, in the quantity you desire. You pick your own portion.

You're dating the wrong women.

 

[bluetors]

Went into Loblaws and grabbed some ice cream. Usually I do a scoop like the ones served on the streets in the summer in a cone or like one at McDonald's.

But the President Choice ice cream was so cardboard that I needed 3/4 a cup!

Cardboard ice cream. There we have it. President Choice. Watch out. Been warned.

 

[bluecolt]

5 star hotels yes. The highest number of Michelin stars a restaurant can be awarded is 3.

Toronto has 12 Michelin star restaurants and one Michelin two star restaurant. Additionally, there are fine restaurants like Canoe, Scaramouche and Mistral. Knowing this, how can you say Toronto restaurants are unappealing?

 

[hamermill]

5 star hotels yes. The highest number of Michelin stars a restaurant can be awarded is 3.

Toronto has 12 Michelin star restaurants and one Michelin two star restaurant. Additionally, there are fine restaurants like Canoe, Scaramouche and Mistral. Knowing this, how can you say Toronto restaurants are unappealing?

There can be many Michelin starred restaurants - there can be 100 Michelin stared restaurants. But the maximum number of stars a restaurant can be awarded is 3-stars. It can be awarded 3 stars but it can never be awarded 4 stars. A restaurant either gets to keep its Michelin star or stars, loses a star or more, awarded more i.e. goes from 1 to a maximum of 3. Michelin stars are not cumulative.

2022 Toronto MICHELIN Stars

The stars are shining brightly over Toronto, with 13 new MICHELIN-Starred restaurants joining the inaugural MICHELIN Guide Toronto

guide.michelin.com

The very first MICHELIN Guide Toronto is launching with 13 new MICHELIN-Starred restaurants—12 One MICHELIN Star restaurants and one Two Star restaurant. Kaiseki, Italian with top cocktails, and a French jewel box are among the newcomers.

Note the "one"

Where is I state Toronto restaurants are unappealing?

I don't like Canoe and Scaramouche can't comment about Mistral.