Maybe we're the only people in Toronto who are not...

Maybe we're the only people in Toronto who are not impressed with Bar Isabel ... but we really thought it nothing more than average.

Let's start with SERVICE: we found our waiter aggressive at best. His recommendations we obviously aimed at selling us more food, not at giving us best experience. Second waiter at one point, while I was in the middle of my meal, asked me to give him my knife bcos he was trying to clean up the table ... which I refused bcos I was in the middle of using it. Yeah, that was weird.

FOOD: If you've not had a good steak anywhere else, you'd think their $79 18oz rib eye steak was all that, but frankly it's just a piece of meat. Good meat, but that's it. Charcuterie is kinda nothing to write home about either (you'll get more interesting selection at Buca). Vegetable dishes were very yummy though. Dessert was pretty unimpressive (blood orange sorbet).

ATMOSPHERE AND DRINKS: Atmosphere is very nice. Cozy and comfortable. Cocktails are excellent too.

Overall, our impression was negative on the service and fairly unimpressive on the food. Maybe we would go there again, but only for drinks.