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Mezza Notte Trattoria
Categories: Restaurants Italian Restaurants Pizza Italian, Pizza [Edit]
5304 Yonge StreetNorth York, ON M2N 5P9
Neighbourhood: Willowdale
(416) 222-2888
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Quiet
- Has TV:
- No
12 reviews for Mezza Notte Trattoria
12 reviews in English
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Review from Marika A.
Toronto, ON
5/8/2012
The service was slow! But the meal was AMAZING!
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Review from Wendy C.
9/8/2011
I used to work in 5150 Yonge building, so a frequent flier at this place. Nothing bad, nothing great, it's the kind of place that you feel safe to take a group to, knowing everyone will find something to his/her liking but don't expect anything to blow you away. Service can be a hit or miss.
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Review from Jill C.
North York, ON
This is a nice Italian restaurant, personally I don't know why everyone else is giving bad reviews, I guess they just don't know good food when they see it!
The Focaccia is defiantly the best part of coming to eat here, it's sooo good and also very addictive!
The Veal Parmigiana has been excellent lately!! Its so soft, you don't need a knife to cut into it, it just falls right apart and melts in your mouth! The sauce is delicious, and don't forget the cheese, lots and lots of cheese on the veal!!!
The meal is also very big, you could share with another person!
The best part is, its in walking distance to me, so when I have a craving for some nice veal, I don't have to go hinting around the city as it seems to be hard to find!1 Previous Review: Show all »
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10/13/2009 First to Review
This is a nice Italian restaurant, they serve Focaccia for the table which I could eat and eat. I go… Read more »
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Review from Heather M.
9/19/2010
Mezza Notte was really busy when we got there.... but after eating there I'm not really sure why!
Mezza Notte can only be described as bland.... I often wonder if this entire strip of Yonge Street around North York City Centre is just bland, much like the food in the Entertainment District in Toronto is just mediocre. I have yet to be proven wrong!
I ordered some rigatoni with sundried tomatoes, olive oil, rapini and olives. Typically, at a good Italian restaurant the taste of each ingredient will be fused together. In this case, it was almost like they boiled some rigatoni, threw in a couple ingredients from a can (save for the rapini and left it as that. The pieces of rapini were humungous - I had entire stalks in my pasta that were difficult to eat.
Our appetizer, the bocconcini with the tomato, (caprese?) was good, although again, somewhat bland. I suppose bocconcini is supposed to be bland, but not this bland!
The only one thing that was good was their bread basket.
Service was a little bit poor. The waitress did not pay attention to details and we often had to ask her for things (i.e. she took away forks, didn't come back with new ones). She was also a little bit klutzy - I felt a bit bad because I'm not the most graceful person in the world, but I am also not a waitress! She dropped several dishes and broke them, and even knocked over a table (which was to her credit, loose) and sent a couple plates flying. There were still several pieces of broken dishware on the ground when we left. Also, when sprinkling parmesan cheese on to our food, she sort of sprinkled it all over the table, the floor and into my lap. Eeek.
I don't think I will be returning here. -
Review from Thu N.
12/9/2010
We celebrated a friend's birthday on a Tuesday night and I was pleasantly surprised to see a fully booked house. The service was pretty quick between taking our drink orders, food orders and when the food came out - surprisingly so since it was so full.
Onwards to the food: The focaccia/bread was deelicious and completely went with our Penne Mezza Notte that we shared. It's a $40 gigantic dish to share which had generous portions of mussels, squid, clams, shrimps...and KING CRAB! The broth was so good with all the seafood juices and tomato sauce. I did prefer dipping the bread rather than eating the penne though.
We shared a bottle of the Sangiovese Montepulciano, IL Brecciarolo (Italy) which was a lighter red which was so good on its own and great for pairing with the seafood.
This is definitely not the cheapest Italian restaurant I've been to but I think the prices are reasonable for the large portions and quality that you get. We had a great time and I'd definitely come back here when I have an Italian craving again. -
Review from Winnie H.
North York, ON
10/10/2011
I want to put as 3.5 star
Both Pasta and Pizzas are good. They have some cut pizza and French bread as free bread ( which is a surprise! ).
The reason I put as 3.5 star as the service is 'AWKWARD'. I went 3 times before and everytime the service was unusual.
1. Some waiters do not tell us about the special dish for the day unless we asked. They do not mentioned about the price of those dish.
2. Sometimes, even the restaurant is not that busy, they still ask you to sit in the small table for 2 and I found that there is not enough space for the food.
3. There is a time the waiter did not give me the dessert menu and he told me that he will tell me what they have. He explained the dessert menu is not up-to-date.
If the service is better, I will have a higher rating as the food is always good over there! -
Review from sunnee s.
Toronto, ON
9/9/2011
i dont really like italian food (well, until recently til tappo and paganelli's.. but anyways). i used to find pasta so boring, plain & bland that i would always end up eating some bland pasta covered in permesean/black pepper. theres no exciting flavors, it just doesnt wake up my tastebuds. THIS was the exact scenario at mezza notte trattoria. plain, boring, bland pasta. bleh. it didnt help that the server was pretty snotty & stuck up, looking so displeased and forced serving us. the pasta dish i ordered was also recommended by this server as well. i dont think i'll ever come back.
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Review from Albert W.
8/28/2010 3 photos
Bleh. Had I known this had only 2.5 stars on Yelp, I would've passed when a coworker recommended this place for lunch. Sad non-Yelpers. Woman got a new IPhone from work so I hope she follows my advice on getting the Yelp app. Anyhow, onto the review.
Bread was fantastic and in fact probably my favorite part of the meal. My breaded veal with peppercorn was not working for me at all but the veggies weren't bad. They also got a new waitress serving us so there was a lot of back and forth with questions.Listed in: North York
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Review from Raymond W.
Toronto, ON
5/8/2011 2 photos
Years I've passed by this place, turned off by the garish Benz that never seemed to move, and the fact it's right next to a "Aren't We Naughty." But it's become a staple on Yonge North, and the online menu suggested that this wasn't a very pretentiously priced place. I took my best friend Tia.
I don't understand the lighting in Italian Restaurants, it always feels as if I'm seeing things through a whiskey bottle. I guess it's supposed to be romantic, but if that were the case, let's just turn off all the lights altogether.
I'm not well versed in Italian cuisine, so although the menu had descriptions, it still looked like a foreign language novel to me. I left the ordering to our very charismatic waitress who was patient enough to become my pasta encyclopaedia. I got some kind of cheese sauce tortellini, and Tia ordered some kind of potato pasta. I also order the mixed grilled vegetables as an appetizer, and request zucchini with it. Apparently, I didn't know how to pronounce zucchini...
So, our Entrées came first..but somehow I ended up with spaghetti. When I notified the waiter of this, three staff came out apologizing to me as if it were some international incident between China and Italy. There were so many different wait staff trying to console me, I felt like pulling out a whistle and waving a red card.
So Tia didn't like the mixed veg because it was cold, I didn't realize this until she pointed it out. I was busy telling another waiter that it was okay that the orders of which the food came didn't offend me.
The bread here was mixed, and tolerable. We didn't get any wine, as neither of us were fans of Italian. Our waitress was ultra attentive, but I suppose it was because the restaurant wasn't buzzing by any means. In fact, she was such a regular at our table, I almost offered her a seat. She was however, very entertaining..and so our impression of her was a good one. I might have though made the novice mistake of talking to her breasts half the time. In my defence, they were eye level.
I must say, it was perhaps her friendliness that saved the experience. I mean, there were a total of six tables, how can you possibly get my order wrong?
There is miniature statue of an Italian Knight by the door...I have no idea what that's about. The décor was boring. If it were any dimmer, I'm sure I would have mistaken it as a pub.
There was a photo of this gorgeous strawberry cheesecake exploding in strawberries. I refused to share with Tia, so we ended up getting two. When it came...it was something completely different, with no strawberries. Or rather, the strawberry was this wave of colour in the slice...yeah, it was good, but we were disappointed.
Two entrées, two desserts, one water, two sodas, and an appetizer ended up costing $71, plus a $25 tip..I didn't actually expect this dinner to cost me $96 dollars. The food certainly was not amazing, although I did have a enjoyable time. I just don't know whether the food was worth that price.
I mean, virtually ever other restaurant nearby serves a full meal for two for half that price, or cheaper. If this was to be most expensive restaurant in the area, then perhaps they could find a niche...and being Italian ain't one.
Perhaps their niche could be a connecting door to Aren't We Naughty...yeah? Now there's an untapped market! -
Review from K F.
1/16/2011 3 photos
We ordered a calamari in spicy tomato sauce as an appetizer. The calamari was very tender, and tomato sauce was fresh with a kick. With the wonderful bread/focaccia, we sopped up every bit of the sauce on the plate after the calamari was all gone.
The main course was angel hair with mushroom in a tomato sauce. The pasta was cooked just perfectly, al dente, which I find difficult as angel hair gets overcooked a lot. The sauce was very fresh and seasoned very well.
We also ordered a tiramisu. According to the waiter, this dessert was made in the restaurant (unlike the cheesecake that was the other choice... from Cheescake Factory). The tiramisu was light, just the right amount of rum. Very nicely done.
Our waiter was friendly and very helpful.
We did find the place a little noisy, but it was totally packed on this Saturday night, but the ambiance was acceptable. -
Review from Jennifer L.
Toronto, ON
7/6/2010
Ew, this place is gross. The dining atmosphere masks itself as a "nice restaurant" but the food is terrible. The service was mediocre and was like amateur hour at Pizza Hut. In fact, I wish I had gone to Pizza Hut instead. I love Pizza Hut.
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Review from Jasmine L.
North York, ON
7/17/2010
The food is not bad, but the service is horrible. Our waitress had an attitude did not once check on us or ask us how our food was, and when we asked for water, the person serving looked like he had better things to do. The salade caprese was not the best I have had. How can you make salade caprese with stale mozarella cheese and unripe tomatoes? Pasta was fine though, and I would give this place another chance because of that.
