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Review votes:
96 Useful, 39 Funny, and 59 Cool

Location

North Bay, ON

Yelping Since

May 2009

Things I Love

Star Wars

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Ontario... somewhere... I travel around a lot!

My Hometown

North Bay, ON

My Blog Or Website

http://www.tjbro.com/

When I'm Not Yelping...

I'm a member of Vader's fist (the 501st)

Why You Should Read My Reviews

Because I'm a student with a line of credit and I prefer to eat out

My Second Favorite Website

http://www.starwars.wi.../

The Last Great Book I Read

Star Wars - Darth Bane - Path of Destruction

My First Concert

Bare Naked Ladies

My Favorite Movie

Star Wars (any of them from ep. 3 through 6)

My Last Meal On Earth

A fuji apple.

Don't Tell Anyone Else But...

I liked Twilight

Most Recent Discovery

Downing 2L of beer from a boot in less than half an hour leads to blackouts...

Current Crush

Catherine Zeta Jones

First Reviews

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115 King St
North Bay, ON P1B 5Z7
(705) 476-5464

King Street Diner  

Category: Diners

1 star rating
 8/5/2010 1 photo 1 Check-in Here   First to Review
Hair in food. Didn't bring what I ordered. Fries were cardboard tasting. Water is gross. Bugs flying around. Ordered a hot turkey sandwich and received a sandwich with chicken topped with beef gravy. On top of which the chicken was extremely dry and unpleasant to eat. Not very pleased as I brought my girlfriend here for our monthiversary. I took her there in the hopes of being pleasantly surprised. What a mistake. Adding this to my avoid at all costs restaurant list.

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169 Main St E
North Bay, ON P1B 1A9
(705) 495-2828

Sushi Island  

Category: Sushi Bars

4 star rating
 Update - 7/25/2010 1 photo 6 Check-ins Here  
I have to update my review. I have to also admit I was extremely disappointed the first time I visited this joint. They must have read my review or something because tonight I was in there with 9 people and the service was as good as it was the night before when I went with just my girlfriend. As I stated in my previous review: the sushi is some of the best I've had and the facilities are a significant step up from what was left by the previous restaurant to occupy this location -- the oriental sun.

Definitely a new favorite in the North Bay area!

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  • 3 star rating
    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.

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112 Spencer Ave
North Bay, ON P1B 7K6
(705) 476-3699

Fox and Fiddle  

Category: Restaurants

4 star rating
 7/24/2010 1 photo 1 Check-in Here   First to Review
It's a fox!

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194 Main Street W
North Bay, ON P1B 2T5
(705) 474-8463

Wellspring Christian Fellowship  

Category: Religious Organisations

3 star rating
 7/9/2010   First to Review
This place is pretty cool. Apparently its a church or something but I've only ever been to the side that's a small tea house. It's a got a cool atmosphere and pretty cool people who aren't all pretentious hipsters. Check it out some time with some friends. Seems to be a good spot to chill out and with some pals.

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22 Marshall Ave E
North Bay, ON P1A 1P8
(705) 472-2300

Miss Saigon  

Category: Vietnamese

2 star rating
 7/9/2010   First to Review
I'm not sure if I've written about my past obsession with Vietnamese food or the fact that I was dating a Vietnamese girl for 3 and half years. But it's a shame that Miss Saigon couldn't satisfy me. It would have been nice to have a local joint to pick up so Vietnamese food when I'm jonesing for some in North Bay. But there were a number of issues I had with this place. First and foremost, no Cilantro!? HOW ON EARTH ARE YOU SERVING PHO WITHOUT CILANTRO!? It just doesn't make sense to me. Cilantro is like a key ingredient in Pho and without it the pho tastes bland to be frank. My second qualm with this place is that they didn't have anything in stock that I wanted to eat. Which is partially understandable as a new opening restaurant but make an effort to ensure your servers let the customers know that your out of something particular so they don't start drooling over the idea and then let down by the fact that they can't have it. This brings me to my last point, the service. I'm not sure what the deal was the night we went in but there were three tables in total, one waitress, and the service was still mediocre. Any time I have to ask to put my order in I get particularly annoyed with a restaurant. And this was the case with Miss Saigon.

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.

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473 Fraser Street
North Bay, ON P1B 3X1
(705) 474-9463

Twiggs Coffee Company  

Category: Caterers

1 star rating
 7/9/2010   First to Review
Waited an hour and a half for two hot chocolates after reminding the servers 3 times that we were waiting. Instead of bringing us our hot chocolates the waitress proceeded to serve the rush that came in after us and then proceeded to sit down and hang out with her friends. When I requested a refund the girl tried to refund me for two medium hot chocolates and didn't believe that I paid for two larges.

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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4841 Yonge Street
North York, ON M2N 5X2
(416) 225-2841

The Keg Restaurants  

Category: Steakhouses

3 star rating
 Update - 7/31/2009  
So I was thrilled about the Keg wanting to make up for a (for lack of better word) shitty experience at their restaurants. But I received the gift-card the other day and guess how kind the Keg was... They were so kind as to give me a big whopping $25 after a ruined meal for three. Making up for the experience would have been at least (absolute minimum) paying for one meal there. I ate a keg sized, medium-rare, prime-rib steak when I was there. That rings up over $26 dollars before tax. Sooo... I can't even get what I would normally eat when I go there with the gift certificate they gave me. So I gave it to a homeless person and told them to go enjoy a good meal. Hopefully he doesn't throw it away thinking it's expired or something.

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  • 4 star rating
    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.

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  • 2 star rating
    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.

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1883 McNicoll Avenue
Scarborough, ON M1V 5M3
(416) 335-6243

I Maid Cafe  

1 star rating
 6/1/2009   First to Review
Blugh! This place was supposed to be about cute oriental girls serving you in maid outfits. The maid outfits thing is true. The other par; not so much.

We went here because my friend has a major fetish for Japanese girls in maid outfits apparently. It turns out... no, just no. *sobs*

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3928 Keele St
Toronto, ON M3J
(416) 439-0000

Pizza Nova  

Category: Pizza

5 star rating
 6/1/2009   First to Review
That's right everybody, I am reviewing Pizza Nova as my 100th review! But this isn't just any Pizza Nova. This is a great Pizza Nova. I'd like to call it the best but there is just far too many locations for me to have tried them all yet since I just moved to Toronto three years ago.

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!

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1110 Finch Avenue W
North York, ON M3J 2T2
(416) 663-5140

Golden Griddle  

Category: Breakfast & Brunch

2 star rating
 6/1/2009   First to Review
I had high hopes for this place when my friend kept ranting and raving about how amazing their breakfast buffet is. But I was not too pleased.

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 ;)

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