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Oliver & Bonacini
- 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:
- Brunch
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
- Noise Level:
- Loud
- Has TV:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
15 reviews for Oliver & Bonacini
15 reviews in English
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Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
9/22/2011 3 photos
Oliver & Bonacini at Oakville Place has this awesome patio!
What makes it more awesome is 50% off Bar Menu Monday to Wednesday from 3 pm!
Now I know where to go for Happy Hour when I visiting Oakville!Listed in: A Day in Oakville!
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Review from Soniya U.
Mississauga, ON
3/7/2012 1 Check-in Here
Unfortunately the food here has gone downhill.
Service is still great though -
Review from Michelle A.
Toronto, ON
12/27/2010 1 Check-in Here
I had a lovely lunch here with my mom before some last-minute Christmas Shopping at the mall. We were even seated a table away from the chefs who were eating there before a book signing. The restaurant is very nice: black and white tables/walls with large private booths. The restaurant was pretty full when we visited so we sat at the high top table in the bar.
We both had the soup and salad lunch special with mushroom soup and greens. The mushroom soup was nice and velvety, but made with no dairy! The salad was a bit disappointing. It was pretty plain and could've used some nuts or berries to spice things up a bit. The soup was also a little salty. I had a butter tart and a pot of honey lemon tea for dessert. I recommend the butter tart - it's a good size, is served warm, and the pastry is nice and light.
Warning: apparently they recently changed the menu and made all of the portions way smaller. Mom - who is a frequent visitor- said you used to get a whole bowl of soup, but they've since downgraded to a little cup. Same with all the sandwich combos. Good try O&B, you can't sneak anything by her! -
Review from Derek L.
Oakville, ON
11/18/2010 1 Check-in Here
Very nice looking place, spacious and new. Very courteous service staff. Good quality food, and fair prices. I went for breakfast and found they have some variations to the average breakfast dish that you can't find at most other places.
Derek -
Review from Vivek S.
4/16/2010
Fine dining in... Oakville Place? Ontario's Lamest Mall™ hosts this upscale resto by the brains behind Canoe. The vast interior is splendid and and includes a lounge and private dining room. I don't remember much about the food at all, except that it was "OK." Apparently their chef specializes in sous vide; meaning all the meals are prepared in a tepid bathtub 'round back. (Probably not.) The service was top-notch. I would try it again, if I somehow ended up at this Godforsaken mall again.
Obligatory Title Pun: OLIVER problems will BONA-- forget it.
Menu Readability: Good use of a sans-serif font and lots of leading.
Need to mention: Being in a mall, this place has a corkload of parking. If you're into that sort of thing.
What this place teaches me about myself: It's hard to think of puns when you have the song "Oom-Pah-Pah" blasting through your head. -
Review from Tammy Y.
2/9/2010
O&B brought their resto know-how to a great area lacking in options for brunch/meals-in-general. Sure, you could make the drive further south to downtown Oakville and battle it out for a spot for eggs, or just show up at Oakville Place and park somewhere in the giant lot and be seated without too much trouble.
The place, like all O&B ventures, is decorated beautifully like an upscale country club complete with wire art reminiscent of Caulder, high ceilings, cookbooks abound and an open kitchen. However, this wonderful atmosphere (and generally good food) is thrown off by lacklustre service. Sure, weekend brunches are possibly one of their busiest days, but the wait for attention and food is juuuust enough for people to start doing the impatient look-around-and-see-where-your-waiter/coffee/food- is move.
Brunch is your run-of-the-mill breakfast options with class - eggs benedict, fancy sausages, granola, eggs, etc. with prices being around average-mid for what you get (though the granola and yogurt is noticeably expensive). Altogether, O&B Oakville has all the right ingredients for an enjoyable weekend meal - a solid fallback option when you've run out of ideas. -
Review from Rita E.
4/22/2010 2 Check-ins Here
Quality & Convenience.
Quality: The restaurant is beautiful. Upscale, open, trendy. The service is spot-on, attentive, & friendly. The food is excellent. I had a fresh artic chard appetizer & a lasagna that was borderline ridiculous with its amount of cheese. Ridiculous, being a good thing for me here.
Convenience: It's at the mall. You can't get any more convenient. No parking headaches here. It's also a lot closer to Milton than Toronto is.
I would come back in a heartbeat. -
Review from Shannon G.
Mississauga, ON
9/9/2011
Boourns! My fiancée had eaten here on a few weeknights and generally had a good experience. We decided to try it out on a Friday night. Big mistake.
Even though the place was only half full, it took 20 minutes for someone to even take our order and we also had to ask a different waitress just to bring us some bread. When the food finally came, we were missing a side dish and our soup was only lukewarm. After 10 minutes when we were halfway through our mains we finally tracked down our waiter and told him. He apologized and said he would put a rush order on the missing side. 15 minutes later still no side, and a different waitress took our plates away. Another 20 minutes later our original waiter comes back, apologizes and asks if we still want the side - obviously not! We ask for the bill and he offers a free dessert but why would we wait around another 20 min for a dessert in an obviously unpleasant situation?? He talks to the manager and comes back with the bill, no comped food or drinks... geez, at the very least comp the appetizer?!
Needless to say this was a very disappointing experience, the waitstaff were inattentive and I will never go back, and I'm sure my fiancee won't be repeating his business there with his associates. It's too bad because their brunch menu looks really good and I was looking forward to trying it out on our next visit. For the prices we expected a lot more - you can get much nicer in Toronto for less. Oh, and the pasta was greasy.
Ordered:
Mushroom soup
Spinach salad
Ricotta and porcini ravioli
Side of garlic/lemon Rick shrimp
Wine selection was decent -
Review from H M.
Mississauga, ON
3/16/2011 1 Check-in Here
I used to go to the location in Bayview village until I moved down here. It was always my favorite place to go. But I have been to this location twice now with bad experiences both times. The first time we had a hair in our appetizer and they took forever to bring a new one and still charged for it. This time no one was at the entrance to greet and once we were finally seated no one came to talk to us. We had to stop someone going by to ask them to take our order. The food was bland for the first time ever with weak serving size and presentation. We had to ask for bread and butter which they always brought right away in the past. And it was one sad bun cut in half for the two of us to share. The Oakville O&B has ruined the memory of my wonderful meals at the original one in north York.
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Review from Richie S.
I've done lunch and brunch here. Food was better than average both times.
Staff were attentive, but the place is so Massive, that you have to wait a while for refills on coffee and such. For a mall-based resto, nice spot to visit. -
Review from Oscar F.
Oakville, ON
8/11/2009
To bad there are no specials.
Food was good, not amazing but definitely good especially the onion soup. One of my favorite onion soups.
Staff was attentive.
Place looks great too. -
Review from Mario C.
Oakville, ON
1/2/2010
I was so looking foward to dining at O&B, but was very disappointed.
The service was extremely slow even tough the restarurant was only half full. The appetizers and salad were good, not great. The presentation of the main dishes was nice but, four of six main dishes arrived at the table cold. The mashed potatoes tasted like instant potatoes. A pasta dish was like glue.
There are many better restaurants in Oakville. -
Review from James F.
Oakville, ON
2/3/2011
Like eating in a tin can. The place is big and there is nothing architecturally to deaden the sound level. Food and service just average. Lot better places to eat in Oakville than this.
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Review from Tom W.
North Vancouver, BC
8/24/2010
Who would have thought that such a great restaurant could be attached to a mall. The food and service were both excellent. Finally somebody is smart enough to serve small dessert items when you just don't want a big dessert. I tried both the italian sausage pasta and the pizza. They were both well prepared and flavorful. I highly recommend this restaurant. Tom
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Review from Cathy M.
Toronto, ON
1/21/2010
The restaurant itself looks a whole lot nicer than the mall. A great addition.
The menu has a wide selection of food, and unlike what Oscar says, they did have specials when I was there, you just have to ask nicely! They are mostly of the "traditional North American with an Asian Twist." I had the Lamb Burger, which had an awesome dressing (was it tzaziki?) and sweet potato fries. It was great!
We went for a birthday party and were glad we grabbed reservations. While we were there, we could see the staff in the larger event room having training on their latest addition to the wine list. Maybe that happens elsewhere, but I've never seen it happening before. Our waiter had already tasted the wine, described it well (even though it was not my fave), and could direct us to the winery. How often does that happen?
I wouldn't say this is a "child-friendly" restaurant, but there's plenty of room for strollers and highchairs. Unlike a lot of restaurants in Oakville, it's actually accessable for people in wheelchairs and walkers (no stairs or levels, no tricky doors, accessible washrooms) Grandma will love it, especially because the prices don't break the budget.
Why four stars? Because the waiter was great, and we had a blast!
Great for that Downtown Oakville feeling, but north of the QEW.
