By: Franco

Franco — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:21:15 +0000

Let me begin by stating, I WISH I could give Old York Bar & Grill a wonderful review, I really do. I love the location, it’s in my neighbourhood, it’s quaint, rustic. Aside from the stank of the local slaughterhouse, it’s ideally off the beaten path of King street in the shadow of the tightly run, efficient professionals at the Foggy Dew.
Holiday Monday afternoon, I am meeting a friend for lunch. It’s nearly empty indoors and a scanty 6 to 10 people on the modestly sized patio. There’s merely one extremely inefficient, slow and I don’t like saying it but, pale, plain and homely waitress ineptly handling this tiny crowd. I find myself sitting in the beautiful sun for about 7 minutes or so waiting for my friend and the waitress has yet to acknowledge me with a “Hi” or “I’ll be right with you, sorry it’s a bit short staffed today…” or “can i get you a menu with 3 seconds walking?” None of the above. I see that about 4 other people are also sitting without food or drink and don’t appear all that happy about it. During this time, another group of about 4 arrives and sits down. My friend finally arrives and the newly arrived group beside me can’t bear the heat so they move a few spots south towards the shade. My friend and i continue to sit without menus or even so much as a nod from this not-so-lovely waitress. So, of course, we decide to get our own menus and before too long are quite ready to order what appear to be fantastic looking sandwiches. The problem here isn’t so much the delay, on a short-staffed holiday monday, anyone can understand one woman handling it all would be a bit of work. However, how hard is it to go table to table, smile sweetly, apologize for the delay, greet your customers pleasantly and at least offer menus or even water. Nada. So when she finally comes back outside, she goes right to the table the of the people who obviously came in after us! I looked at my friend and simply said “that’s it, let’s go to Foggy Dew.” When we actually got to foggy dew, we immediately noticed that 4 of the people we saw waiting also with menus, had actually left and were getting prompt service at the dew. Within 2 minutes of sitting down, a manager came by and was taking our drink orders, and giving us menus. NIGHT AND DAY.
Sadly, i can’t even review the food at Old York Bar & Grill because the service was so horrific we didn’t get the opportunity.
If I was the owner of that place, I’d certainly want to know how much money that waitress cost her not to mention the reputation of Old York Bar & Grill. That place deserves better but at this point, I have almost no interest in giving it another try. I hope the owner can actually sell it to someone for a profit and then someone comes in an actually demolishes the place and rebuilds a brand new modern resto/lounge place that king west residents will flock to in droves.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:04:17 +0000

the public must know.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:20:42 +0000

Hot Sauce to kill for!!!!!!Don’t give out our secrets Ricky!!!!!!:)

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