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North Bay, ON
Yelping SinceMay 2009
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Definitely a new favorite in the North Bay area!
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7/9/2010 First to Review
This a-ok rating is generous to be honest because I have experienced better but I had to give the place some points for the outstanding quality of the food they serve (or neglect to serve.) The service here was absolutely terrible! Its all you can eat but I left hungry after 3 hours in the restaurant. The waitresses need training very badly they make the business look bad as a whole. This restaurant took over the oriental sun restaurants location and they have certainly upgraded the facilities. Sushi island is a nice restaurant with great food but suffers because of the poor service.
I should note however that the only reason my friends took me there is because they went a couple night before to make sure it was worthy and they had a great experience in a smaller group. So maybe that's the trick to this place.
North Bay, ON P1B 2T5
(705) 474-8463
Wellspring Christian Fellowship
Category: Religious Organisations
I'll be curious to see if some of the new restaurants opening in North Bay will reach viability. And I hope they do so when the day comes that they are established I will revisit them in hopes of a better experience so I can come and brag about it to the Yelp community.
Every past experience I've had with this place has been good but it only takes one bad experience to turn a customers attitude sour. I refuse to give business to Twiggs since this experience. It's a shame because now I'm limited to Tim Hortons and... well Tim Hortons. It's all we have here in North Bay after all -- an ungodly amount of Tim Hortons'.
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7/24/2009
I'm switching the rating I gave this location based on the fact that I sent a letter in to let them know what happened on my last visit. I received a response from Customer Service within 24 hours saying the General Manager of the Keg or the Regional Manager from that location would be in touch with me.
When he called I let him know that everything was great it was just frustrating to go to a restaurant you've learned to rely on as having consistently flawless performance and find you can't have a conversation with your brother who is visiting you for the second time in three years. He assured me he is doing his best to deal with these sort of problems and offered to send me a gift card. I refused telling him it wasn't my end-game to get free food and that I just wanted to let them know since I would want to know if I ran a restaurant of the same reputation as the Keg possesses. But he insisted on sending me a gift card so I am grateful that it's so important for them to make it up to those customers who don't have a first-class experience at their restaurants. I will redeem the gift card at the same location and write another update when the time comes. Hopefully when that time comes I will be able to come back here and give them that fifth star I would like to be able to give all Keg locations.
Thanks Ariel G. for suggesting to write them about the issue. -
7/21/2009 First to Review
I never thought I would see the day. The day when I had to give The Keg a two star rating. But honestly this place was a disgrace to Keg Restaurants everywhere.
It wasn't the food. It wasn't the service. It wasn't the atmosphere in one sense but in another sense it was all the atmosphere.
This was a Keg. Fancy diggs. Friendly service. Great food. But the loudest kitchen ever! What makes it worse? We were seated right next to the kitchen.
The workers in the kitchen were so loud that we couldn't even talk over dinner. It was one of those meals where you just scarf your food down as quickly as possible and look at eachother like deer in headlights everytime a person at the table tries to talk. It was impossible to hear even accross the table. I understand how kitchens work and that they are busy and sometime loud places. I am even understanding most of the time about the noise level coming from a kitchen. But this was beyond reasonable. The kitchen alone ruined the Keg experience. Which is very frustrating when you get the bill back and it's $150. Ugh.
Next time I want to go to the Keg I'll make the trip to the Mansion location downtown which is so peaceful and epitomizes the experience I envision when I plan on eating at a Keg.
We went here because my friend has a major fetish for Japanese girls in maid outfits apparently. It turns out... no, just no. *sobs*
The funniest thing about this is that I gave this place five stars purely based on the quality of their food. The pizza is f'ing fantastic! I originally bought pizza here because my sister was on a hockey tournament and the team ordered pizza from Pizza Nova for the team and I had some and though "you know what, this is plain ass pizza but it's good, and apparently cheap". I realized, "hmm I think there is a Pizza Nova location around my house, I wonder how it is?"
So the next time I wanted pizza I called and asked about their specials and found out about their $9.99 walk-in special which is a large pepperoni and due to the restaurants proximity; perfect for me!
The other great thing about the pizza here is that you don't feel guilty for eating it. It's not overly greasy or anything like that. In fact in actually might convince you that you've made a healthy choice in eating it due to it's lack of greasiness. Plus your getting dough, marinara, cheese, and pepperoni; carbs, vegetables, dairy, and meat! It's like an all-encompassing food choice! GO PIZZA!
In conclusion, this place is great for those nights where you'd just too pooped to make food and then clean up afterwards. And it's not too expensive either ringing in at only $11.29 after taxes!
North York, ON M3J 2T2
(416) 663-5140
Golden Griddle
Category: Breakfast & Brunch
The location was nice. And thats about all this place had going for it.
Before I start: note that I had the buffet and everything I say from here on out is about that experience.
The service was absolute garbage. We seen our waitress twice: once to seat us, and once to take our money. I hate this custom of tipping we have here in North America! It's stupid! If you don't earn your tip, you don't get a tip. The way I do it is I start with whatever I expect 25% of my bill to be (thats generous) and then every time something happens where the service appeared to be lacking I take off 25 cents. Following that rule this meal would have earned the waitress a whopping $3.50 but I found myself asking "where the hell is our waitress" so often that there was no tip left to leave. She should have been paying me for bearing such terrible service! But when I think about this now I wonder if, due to the fact that we were having the buffet if they sort of leave you to yourself. Either way I needed a refill of water really bad.
What was supposed to be a hangover breakfast after a night of 151 and coke, and tequila shots, we needed A LOT of water and good hangover food (which breakfast food usually is).
This food was dry and tasteless for the most part. The best thing on the buffet were the "potato puffs" which were obviously dumped in a pan from a McCain Tater Tot's bag.
I think the best part of my experience here was listening to the little girl argue with the balloon guy about what color the flower she wanted should be. (But I'm sure he won't be there every time someone visits this place).
Overall, Golden Griddle might have a good name but this location didn't fulfill that at all. I advise you seek out another one and then leave a review here until we have found the best location in Toronto ;)