St. Lawrence

This was amazing! Food tasted good and the service was wonderful! We were looking for a place last minute and this came up, so glad we went.

This is a place for the newly affluent, not so worldly yuppies who do not possess style and a refined taste. It is for people who mechanically run to the next trendy place but have no refinement. It’s for people who can pay for an expensive meal, but don’t understand fine dining is a whole experience. I was very uncomfortable at this restaurant. If you lack refinement and compassion enough to be able to have good food and wine surrounded by abject poverty, homelessness, and heartbreaking drug use, go there. This restaurant is located in a neighbourhood that does not at all match the hype the restaurant likes to create around itself. This restaurant has created this hype about itself where you have to try a few times to get a reservation; you must pay a mandatory $125 per person and a mandatory 20% tip when you book online. If you don't show up, the amount you paid is not refunded which is probably to trap people like me. If we had not prepaid $250 plus tip ahead of time, I would not stay. If fact when we got to the restaurant, shocked by the location, I asked our cab to wait for us to make sure we are in the right place (I could not believe my surroundings) and that I wanted to make sure the place was open. They were 10 minutes away from opening, but they would not let us in although I asked them if we could be let in as I was uncomfortable standing in the street in that environment. So I had to wait there in an environment where I felt sad, unsafe, and uncomfortable for 10 minutes until they opened the door to the restaurant. Fine dining is a whole experience. It is not just eat, drink, and get out of there before it is dark. I am insulted that a restaurant that creates so much hype about itself leads to one of the absolutely worst neighbourhoods in North America. They did not have enough courtesy or decency to let me in for the 10 minutes that we had left to the opening to allow me to leave an environment in which I was visibly uncomfortable and and told them I was uncomfortable. The staff is unrefined and ill -mannered. This is a place for the newly affluent, not so worldly yuppies that don’t understand fine dining is a whole experience. Hard pass! You take any cook book; follow the instructions carefully, you'll end with good food. You don't need to feast on microscopic amounts of fairly okay food in a neighbourhood where under privilleged people live painful lives.