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2014-07-14
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On our way to catch a quick bite at LA Creperie on Queen's Road East, we were attracted by the blingy signage of this restaurant, so change of plan and decided to try it out.Interior Decor of the 2-level restaurant is not exactly impressive, hardly can be associated with an opera house (Teatro Argentina came to mind) as the restaurant's name suggests, but good enough to sit through the meal comfortably.The place was 1/2 full when we arrived at 2-ish 3, but I only saw 2 servers on the floor. I'd
Interior Decor of the 2-level restaurant is not exactly impressive, hardly can be associated with an opera house (Teatro Argentina came to mind) as the restaurant's name suggests, but good enough to sit through the meal comfortably.
The place was 1/2 full when we arrived at 2-ish 3, but I only saw 2 servers on the floor. I'd say the Server : Customer ratio is around 1:20, and you can image how bad it was. We waited for at least 10 minutes unattended before we could get some water and place our order.
Food failed to make an impression either. While they offer Sunday brunch with buffet style antipasti and desserts and choice of mains from the menu, we thought the prices are pretty absurd at $298 per head for a casual brunch plus $130 or $180 additional if you want free flow prosseco or prosseco & wines on top, so we chose to go simple. We picked seared Hokkaido scallops and a Margherita pizza, top with 2 lattes (I asked for a soya latte but they don't have that option).
Scallops - overwhelmed with the aroma and taste of the garnishing porcini bits and truffle oil, hence could hardly make out the taste of the scallops. Otherwise, they were cooked ok.Pizza - supposedly thin crust but fail to deliver crispiness. The pizza arrived luke warm not sizzling hot with cooled tomato sauce and not fully melted mozzarella and very stingy sprinkle of basil leaves.
Coffee - very mediocre like everything else, not much better than what you can get from the S or P franchises, which is utterly shocking given an supposedly "authentic" Italian restaurant.
Bill came to $462, not exactly my defintion of good value for money given the food and service.
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