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Day & Night Firewood Steakhouse
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Good For:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
8 reviews for Day & Night Firewood Steakhouse
8 reviews in English
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Review from William T.
Scarborough, ON
6/17/2011
I went here for a friends b-day din. Menus start at $29.99. I got a $32.99 set menu consisting of: ayce salad bar, lobster bisque, 6 oysters , 8oz sirloin medium rare & coffee ice cream. Oysters are $138 for 100.
Salad bar has caesar salad, canned fruits, corn, fruit salad, tater salad, soba noodles, & mini corn.
Oysters made their way to the table at a lazy pace, they need to hire a faster shell shucker or at least have 2 normal ones.
Dinner rolls were freshly made though their crust was hard & unpleasant to bite through to the tender interior.
Lobster Bisque was bisque-like but was just thickened with flour & had pseudo lobster flavoring with taters sans actual lobster.
The 6 shells I ordered were smaller than the platter oysters the group purchased but I found them to taste significantly better because they were infantile, more tender & the juices simply went down easier,
Sirloin steak was medium rare as I had asked for, tender flavorful & consistent throughout. There was gravy on the side, 1 chunk of steamed broccoli, 1 chunk of carrot &1 half of a potato. Lackluster sides but the meat sauce made it all better!
Ice cream flavours available: Mango, Sesame, Green Tea & Coffee.
My favorite was their Green Tea ice cream because it was of high quality & tasted authentic.
Overall most of the food was just OK, BUT I really liked my steak! However, what stood out was the capability of our server who moved swiftly & was very considerate. More impressive was that he was able to perform the aforementioned even with such a large group to serve. This server was the deciding factor of whether or not I would return.
I will return some day.Listed in: Good for Groupies
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Review from Raymond W.
Toronto, ON
7/17/2011
For whatever reason this girl I was seeing thought this was somehow a romantic spot. I've been seeing her for some time, but this was our official first date.
Oh Gawd, I'm tired already talking about this place. All I have to do is think about this restaurant, and immediately I become exhausted.
The décor is horrendous! Fake vines, plastic fruits, Christmas light, and toy seafood. It's as if Aqua Man & Poison Ivy had a child, and that child was a hippy, and this was her Spadina apartment where wearing anything but pyjamas would constitute as being overdressed.
Oh how much longer do I have to go on?
Maybe I'll try to just throw out words and your imagination can put everything together. Ready?
Musty, salad bar, lobster sashmi, wood, lightbulps, undercooked, empty, fire hazard, mosquitoes, ketchup, sleeping, Windows 98.
She paid, and I didn't feel guilty about it. That's how much I dislike this place. It's over, I can't believe she took me here. Last date ever!
And set menu at a steakhouse? What? -
Review from Candy W.
2/25/2011
This restaurant features a menu with different variations of 4-5 course dinners. Most of them include a trip to the all you can eat salad bar, which has a modest selection of vegetables, dressings and jello (yes, jello).
I came here with my dad and we both ordered a 5 course dinner ($32).
The foie gras served on a crostini was sooooo good! The creamy, luscious fatness was amazing. The oyster appetizer was served with an assortment of 6 different types of oysters. They didn't introduce the names of the different types so I had no idea what I was eating. All the oysters tasted fresh and I found the smaller ones had better flavour.
The lobster soup was a disappointment. It was too thick and was filled with all potatoes! I wasn't expecting lobster meat, but at least throw me a chunk of carrot or two!
For the entrees, we ordered a striploin steak and a rack of lamb. We asked for medium rare (or 50% done in asian saying) and it was perfect.
At 10pm, they started to dim the lights and placed fake candles with changing colours on every table. I found the changing colours too distracting so I hid my candle underneath a table menu. After a minute, the waiter returned and placed another candle on the table. I hid the second candle as well and the same waiter rushed back to place a third candle on the table hahaha! I know this is rather irrelevant - I was just very amused with how efficient and oblivious the waiter was. -
Review from Yvonne T.
6/17/2011 7 photos
Came to Day & Night for Peter Jai's birthday celebration. It is a Chinese-owned Steakhouse that gets quite a few whispers in our community. We were a party of 16 and ended up having what appeared to be the "party room" exclusively to ourselves which was nice. The decor is neither here nor there - wooden tables with a glass viewing pane with random scattered pebbles and keychains of guns, and hearts scattered within.
They have various set menus available starting at $29.99. I opted for the $32.99 set menu which included: AYCE at the salad bar, choice of soup (2 options), choice of appetizer (3 options), choice of steak (5-6 options?) and ice cream for dessert. I ended up ordering their Lobster Soup, Foie Gras, and 8 oz Ribeye (medium-rare). We also ended up ordering 300 oysters ($138 for 100).
The salad bar is not extensive but then again you don't really want to load up on salad do you? At the salad bar you will find items like Caesar Salad, canned peaches, canned mandarins, corn, mixed fruit salad, potato salad, soba noodles, baby corn, and Jell-o (yes folks, randomn Jell-o!).
They definitely need to hire a faster shucker as after we ordered our 2 bottles of red wine (Wolf Blass Yellow Label and Jacob's Creek) there were still no oysters in sight.
I was prematurely excited when we were served warm bread baskets... but that dissipated immediately. First no-no, where is the butter? Second no-no - I could seriously hurt someone with these dinner rolls that were hard as rocks!
We were kept waiting for a rather long time after our wine was brought and everyone was relatively hungry (seeing as it was 9:45PM). The oysters themselves came in 2 varieties I believe, although you got me when it comes to which varieties they were. One was much rounder in shape, while the other was more oblong. They were served up with lemon wedges and horseradish, and upon request, some Tabasco Sauce. I am no oyster connoisseur but I think that the shucker dug the shucking tool into some of the oysters which to me screams amateur! Obviously our eyes were bigger than our stomachs, as we all tapped out after 264 oysters (or 16.5 oysters each), and ended up leaving 32 perfectly good oysters untouched. I couldn't help but think about the starving children of third world countries and how wasteful we were being! We did try to tell them to reduce the order to 200 when everyone was looking a little gluttonous, but unfortunately, they had already shucked all 300.
I am glad that they didn't try to pass off the soup as a Lobster Bisque because this soup was basically just a thick roux with some lobster seasoning and potatoes in it. Lobster chunks were MIA.
The Foie Gras was probably the highlight of the evening as it was perfectly seared to melt in your mouth. The sweetness of the gherkin as well as the butter they used on the crostini served as good enhancers. The alfalfa sprouts did nothing for the dish neither from a taste nor presentation perspective.
I ordered ribeye as that is always my go-to cut of beef for tenderness. I asked for my steak medium-rare and it came as such. However, I still found my steak to be a bit on the tough side. Boyfriend ordered a sirloin and I found his to be a superior steak to mine. Day & Night prides itself in serving Certified Angus Beef, however, that still didn't save the piece of mediocre steak I was served. The steak came with gravy on the side, 1 floret of steamed broccoli, 1 slice of carrot and 1 slice of potato. What a sad cast of sides!
The ice cream flavours available were: Mango, Sesame, Green Tea and Coffee. I tried all but sesame. The mango flavour tasted quite authentic and not artificially flavoured and definitely had mango flavour; the coffee ice cream had a strong coffee flavour and the green tea ice cream was of good quality.
Verdict:
Our server was great. He really busted his balls to serve our party of 16 and at the end of the night we gave him a $150+ tip. Our bill came to about $1,276 before tip and we ended up paying $1,500 all in. I had brought a homemade Hazelnut Mousse Cake with Chocolate Ganache and Alex had bought a Tiramisu cake. The server was nice enough to bring out the cakes, one at a time, and then a dessert on the house for the birthday boy. Suffice it to say, we serenaded Peter Jai with 3 different versions of Happy Birthday (English, Cantonese and Mandarin).
If you like patios, one can be found here.
The Foie Gras, Ice Cream, and this particular server are what would make me even consider coming back. I don't frequent steakhouses often, in fact, probably only twice a year. So when I do go to a steakhouse, I will want to go all out. With that said, I will definitely not be coming to Day & Night. The restaurant is correctly named, as the discrepancy in terms of quality of service versus the quality of food is really as different as Day & Night.Listed in: If I had a choice..., The more the merrier...
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Review from Laura C.
Toronto, ON
6/14/2010
I came here over a year ago with my parents. The outside and interior decor was almost a turn off and looked sketchy.
It was like a seafood restaurant turned crazy. It was supposed to be a steakplace.
But i have to say, give it a chance. This was best steak i've ever had,and I'm not a fan of red meats.
And they make a big deal of telling you it's Certified Angus Beef, just in case you forget.
My parents actually really liked it. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
11/26/2009
One of those Chinese owned and runned steakhouse.
They advertised serving only Certified Angus Beef. So if you go please order the steak.
The other pasta dishes are just a Chinese version of Italian food....
The set menu comes with choice of onion soup (not your usual French onion soup, just a broth with onion inside) or lobster soup (taste like something from the can, no sight of lobster meat), both taste so so..
The salad bar are set up with potato salad, marconi salad, romaine lettuce, onion, pepper and kraft type salad dressing. And there are some jello cubes, I guess that consider as desserts??
The tenderloin usually comes in size of 4 oz if it is a lunch time menu.. trust me is a really little 4 oz.. as the meat is weighted before it is cooked...
The pasta dishes tasted quite bland... with the help of Todasco.. they did improve a little.
They do have fresh lobster for dinner special when it is in season. If so the lobster does taste pretty good.
Service can be slow at times! Especially during lunch hours as sometimes there are only 1 waiter working.
They accept VISA and Mastercard -
Review from Annie L.
Toronto, ON
10/24/2011
Food and service is good. But wine pairing is weak and coordination is terrible. One person's soup will show up, get eaten, before another soup show up, 15 minutes afterwards. There's twelve of us at a reserved table so when set course meals show up randomly it's really annoying. It's been almost two hours!!! Where is our dinner???
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Review from Tina N.
Toronto, ON
2/16/2010
Day and Night is a great place for steaks that are char-broiled to perfection with fresh seafood (lobster, crab, oyster). A decent local Steak House with an oriental twist to it where the prices are good with the set menu options! The set menu I ordered was $88.00 between 2 people before tax, and comes with an all-you-can-eat salad bar, a choice of Lobster Bisque or Onion Soup, a Lobster appetizer weighed at 4 pounds cooked sashimi style and grilled style (might I add, the sashimi was AMAZING! No fishy odour and it was crisp and fresh!), a shared entrée of a 24 oz. T-Bone Steak, and for dessert a funnel cake! All of this food was for only for $44 a person which was a great value for a Surf and Turf Dinner!! If I was at Ruth's Chris I would be paying at least minimum of $60 EACH! Service is great and staff is always super friendly. I usually go here every couple of months and I have never been disappointed which is why I keep coming back to this restaurant. Definetly a great place to check out for dinner!
