Brassaii

Had dinner last night at Brassaii Bistro Lounge …The new executive Chef Bruce Woods has changed the entire dinner menu and it is FANTASTIC!!! The Salmon Tartar is so flavourful…with an asian twist! I also had the miso black cod with mango salsa and wasabi mash. The miso melted in my mouth. They also have a new cocktail menu created by their resident Mixologist… jordan. (make sure you ask if he can make your cocktail for you) – the balsamic bramble was yummy!!! i will definitely come back to this place….

I chose to celebrate my 40th birthday at Brassaii with twenty of my closest friends. I booked the event with a very polite and poised hostess and chose to go with the very reasonable $45 prix fix dinner option. They sat me and my guests very quickly and without any problems or waiting. The table was set up in the very back which made the evening more intimate. The service was fast and the food was delicious. To top it all off, my best friend had called a few days prior and had requested their pastry chef make me a special chocolate cake for dessert. This cake was absolutely divine! It had chocolate truffle filling topped with a bittersweet chocolate butter cream and cocoa meringue. My entire party enjoyed themselves very much that evening and most importantly it made turning 40 just a tad bit easier.

A colleague and I walked in for lunch and ordered the Triple S which we both thought was fantastic. The Triple S is a $9 food combination of soup, salad and a sandwich. The service was friendly, fast and the venue was filled with charm and good taste. I will be sure to keep this gemstone in mind the next time I have a business lunch or dinner to reserve.

Brassaii Bistro Lounge hosted a celebratory...

Brassaii Bistro Lounge hosted a celebratory dinner for the cast and filmmakers from the movie “Up in the Air” at the Toronto International Film Festival. Including actors George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga, Melanie Lynskey, Anna Kendrick and director Jason Reitman. Others that came for the after party were actors Bill Murray, Amanda Seyfried and Rachelle Lefevre. It was a very cool party and the food yummy..

Terrible service - would absolutely not return again.

We went to Brassaii recently to celebrate a friend's 30th birthday. The food itself was adequate, in fact, quite good, but the service was absolutely terrible. We had a group of 15 people, and when making the reservations, the restaurant insisted that we use a set-menu approach. This request was not particularly unusual, and so we obliged. However, we were floored by what we experienced when we arrived. First of all, as soon as we were all seated, our waiter interrupted us and instructed us to look at our menu so that we could order promptly, in a tone that suggested we were three-year-olds. Even more mortifying was that he insisted that all of the steaks ordered at our table had to be cooked to the same temperature. Too bad if one person wanted rare and another wanted well done, this just wasn't allowed, because "the kitchen couldn't handle it." Seriously?! The kitchen can't handle cooking six steaks differently?! This was an absolutely ridiculous notion for a restaurant of that size. Okay, fine, everyone agreed to have their steaks cooked medium-rare. Even then, the steaks all came out medium-well. Throughout the meal, the waiters were rude and unprofessional. They would reach across the table without saying "excuse me", and were generally rough and abrupt. The meal cost $80 a person, and it seemed like the waiters felt that they were doing us a favour for serving us at all. The poor service was unprovoked; we are not rude or obnoxious, and as young professionals we are aware of appropriate behaviour and attire in these kinds of settings. When the bill comes to over $1,200 for dinner, you'd think the service would match the price, but it absolutely did not.