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    Sicilian Pasta Kitchen

    3.4 (117 reviews)
    Open 11:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Outdoor seating
    Dogs allowed

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    Jennie L.

    This place is the place to go that has consistant tasty pasta ...for the last 20 years. The atmosphere is elegant and comfortable. They have a nice patio which probably has helped them through COVID. Our server was friendly but overly busy. So it was a little delayed with ordering, our water glasses being filled etc. My daughter and I decided on choosing two pastas for 30 dollars. My daughter picked Gnocchi - potato gnocchi with bacon, green onions, cream sauce parmigiano and the Ravioli - roasted garlic and mushrooms, rose sauce, parmigiano. While I picked the Penne alla Diavola -baby lobster, chicken, diced tomato, cayenne pepper cream sauce and the Linguini mediterraneo - Shrimp, sundried tomatoes, feta, kalamata olives, artichokes, garlic, olive oil. The pastas came as a generous portion however I felt like for 30 bucks each plate we should have more of the fillings (ie shrip, lobster, etc.) rather than the pasta. All of the pastas were tasty though. My daguhter liked the gnocchi the best out of her two while I liked the penne alla diavola. However, if you don't want such a heavy pasta the linguini mediterraneo was good as well. It was in general a good experience but I think that maybe it is overpriced. 30 bucks is a lot to pay for pasta with not much extras in there. I would go back there, but it isn't on the top of my list.

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    Amabel D.

    Feels crazy that I never reviewed or tried this place. I had the shrimp penne alfredo, bruschetta, and tiramisu. My partner had the bolognese. All our food came out quickly and tasted great. Honestly the portions were so giant we ended up taking the pasta home! A nice problem to have. Service was probably the best part of the evening. It was very relaxed and nice. We went the last night before the lockdown so it was good to just chill and enjoy an evening out before having to stay home!

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    Anna H.

    As if the South End location didn't end up scaring me out of SPK for good. Sunday night with grumbling stomachs led us downtown in need of some sustenance. First thought was to visit Jang again but they weren't open so our next closest spot was of course SPK Downtown. I mean being on Jasper for so long, it's hard not to know how iconic and familiar SPK is. Offering more of a sophisticated dining experience with some traditional well rounded Italian dishes. The space is dated, with exposed brick paired with white leather back cushions, dark wooden tables and chairs layered with white linen tablecloths dressed with white paper on top. The space was trying to feel formal and sophisticated but the detailing didn't seem elevated. MUCH better compared to their south location though, so I'm fine. Service was amazing, she knew her food and definitely knew her wine. She ended up suggesting the Murcatto wine, a white wine, ended up really enjoying how light this was. She was also diligent in coming by throughout the dinner for refills and clearing plates and dishes. diligent and friendly service. Salsiccia - ($15) - Italian sausages with bell peppers and mushrooms mixed in with tomato sauce. I mean this was okay, the tomato sauce wasn't as flavorful as I'd want it to be and the Italian sausages weren't at all spicy. Bruschetta - ($10) - Felt like the crostini could have been toasted a little more for more of a crunch. ​ Insalata Arugula - ($9) - Way waaaay too much dressing. Balsamic is already super strong and this was swimming in it. We probably had a few bites each and didn't end up taking any of it home. Maybe just get it on the side or something but man, this was like balsamic shallot vinaigrette soup. Manzo - ($38) - We ended up sharing this as our main, the 10oz grilled tenderloin was actually two slabs of 5oz placed on top of each other. Which worked out well for us. We asked for medium rare and it came out perfectly. This was a really good piece of meat. The porcini mushroom glaze was an awesome accompaniment, thick enough to coat each bite. The truffle oil roasted potatoes are another thing completely! Boiled and then pan fried I suppose making the outer corners crispy and beautifully browned while the inside was moist and creamy. Not each piece was consistent in getting the same sear though. So, clearly between the two of us we over ordered. Ended up taking a bunch of it home for left overs and they heated up well, still tasted good the next day! Portions were huge, definitely didn't expect that much food but it seems like their dishes are meant to be more family style dining. So i'd say pretty good value. As for, would I recommend? Maybe just for the mains and a bottle of wine. Even with the friendly service and how delicious the manzo was, wouldn't be enough for me to come back.

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    Edward L.

    Went restaurant hunting and ended up here. There is a sign advertising free parking in the back, but I couldn't find any spots that didn't have a "reserved" sign for another business. So, I found some free spots a block away on the street. The inside is trendy, but not dark. The decor is quite unique, in the shape of large glass enclosures that cover each light bulb. This is something you probably won't see anywhere else. The staff were quick, cheerful, and friendly. No complaints there. The pasta dishes were mostly in the $15-20 range, which is quite reasonable. They have daily specials too, but I chose the rigatoni trapani, which was a cream sauce with portabello mushrooms. Very very tasty! So why not 5 stars? 1) the aforementioned glass bulbs were quite dusty. They're hard to clean for sure, but it's noticeable. 2) the buns at the beginning of the meal, while larger than normal, were of Superstore quality. I was hoping for something fresher. Overall this is a pretty decent place. Recommended.

    Ellie E.

    Exceptional! The ambiance was casual with a trending urban appeal. The lighting was romantic and the music was relaxing with modern EDM undertones. The setting was classy. Easily dressed up or casual attire would be acceptable. I ordered the Manzo as my main. The vegetables were warm yet still crisp. They were fresh and well presented. The potatoes were nice and crisp without being dry. The seasonings really added to the flavour. My steak was cooked to perfection, I ordered it rare and I am thoroughly impressed. It was topped with a porcini mushroom Demi glaze that not only amplified the steak but was the perfect addition to my potatoes. I paired my meal with a 9oz glass of Masi. For dessert I was torn between the tiramisu and the Dulce du Leche (dull-chA due Lee-chA). After speaking with my waiter, and suggesting I wanted something a bit less rich, he recommended the Dulce du Leche. When my dessert came he had also given me a nice size sample of the tiramisu. Both were exceptional and the tiramisu was not overly rich. However the Dulce du Leche did have a more mild flavour to it. I cannot say which I preferred. My waiter was on point as well, he was exactly where he needed to be when he needed to be there. He never asked me anything when I had a mouthful of food. (Thank you sir) There is free parking in the back of the building for patrons while on site. The bathrooms were a lovely piece of Italy, not the typical Italian decor we have learned to expect in our North American world but a true testament to Italian choice of material. Cement. You will need to see it to understand what I am talking about. I would recommend this place for a girls night out or a romantic dinner for two. Looking forward to returning.

    Stephan B.

    I've been here maybe 7 or 8 times over the last few years; sometimes with a group of friends or a special event, but mostly it's with my boyfriend for our anniversary. We are always greeted so nicely, they are fast, clean, and professional. I like that the food comes really fast, the atmosphere is very warm and romantic, and the food is really, really good.

    Greg N.

    Calamari!! Damn it was so good here!! Such a fluffy batter, melt in your mouth, not over cooked dish! Our service at our table was epic! Did not have to wait long at all for a refill on my drink! Pizza had such a nice mix of everything to it! Spice was very nice to have to my dish as well. Finished everything off with a delicious coffee and call it an epic night!! There coffee was seriously Bomb!! The atmosphere felt very inviting and far from feeling like you need to be pushed out the door! Damn good time!!!

    Vicki M.

    I came here for lunch with my best friend on a Friday afternoon. We were looking for a place with a patio and a glass of sangria. Service was spotty to begin with - we had to wait exceptionally long to be seated and then again to have our orders taken, even though the restaurant wasn't overly busy. But to be fair it improved by the end. Ordered: - calamari - I found it just okay even though last time I had i quite enjoyed it. The dipping sauces - marinara and tzakiki are necessary. - margherita pizza - way too cheesy (and hence salty) for my palate. And needed more fresh basil - not just finely chiffoned pieces scattered over. This pizza was a big let down especially since I was looking for a pizza that was fresh and light and their interpretation of a margherita pizza did not meet that expectation. - sangria - yummy! Overall - not overly impressed this past visit with the whole meal and experience. I would probably go to Cafe Amore or Famoso for lunch if I'm craving a nice sangria and anything italian-related.

    PJ Y.

    Ambiance is really nice. Lights were dimmed and service was good. Its actually sort of romantic buy its good for groups too. Its our first time here and i couldnt make up my mind. I wanted to try it all. Luckily, they have combination pastas! Love love love my order! Penne gorgonzola and the feature ravioli. I prefer cream sauce and the featured mushroom ravioli comes with rose sauce. So the server offered to change the sauce for me! That is great service!

    Cozze Gorgonzola = yum!
    Bernice G.

    The restaurant has had a makeover in the last 5 years or so but the menu hasn't changed much. Why change a good thing? When I come here I either come for the Penne alla Diavola or the Cozze Gorgonzola. The penne has fresh baby lobster and chicken with the best cream sauce mixed with cayenne pepper and diced tomatoes. So yummy! The Cozze Gorgonzola mussels are so delicious! They are steamed in garlic, leeks, and a most delectable tomato cream wine gorgonzola sauce. I am drooling just thinking about them. This past Friday after work, my friend and I wanted to hang out on a patio and just chill. We were in the mood to relax, enjoy some wine and have a light dinner. I suggested this place knowing that the patio is wonderful and rarely busy, plus I wanted those mussels and I wanted her to try them too! The patio was open and we were seated by the hostess. Our server, Amy, greeted us and told us the specials. She was very attentive and friendly and made us feel right at home. We ordered the mussels to share. I ordered the house pinot grigio to drink and my friend ordered a glass of sangria. The mussels didn't disappoint! I would have to say that this place makes some of the best mussels in the city. They have so much flavour to them and you get a huge bowl of them. I can't imagine eating all of those myself but I have a feeling I could manage. We were also served warm bread and we sopped up the scrumptious sauce with it. So good! The wine was good but the sangria was excellent. I would definitely order that again too. The patio is still lovely. It is especially romantic in the evening with the stringed white lights above. The restaurant itself is also very chic and modern with romantic lighting. I always feel like I am eating in style, however, it can get a bit noisy at times. A wonderful evening out and I look forward to my next patio date!

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    Mark L.

    I was impressed by the Sicilian Pasta Kitchen. The food, service, and decor were tasty, speedy, and tasteful respectively. I had the Mediterranean Fettucini and it came with a riot of ingredients that presumably are Mediterranean in origin (olives, shrimp, artichoke). The serving size was large; I have quite a bit left over for lunch tomorrow. I shared bruschetta and it was fine. A three-year-old who doesn't like tomatoes liked the bruschetta, for what it's worth. The bread, on the other hand, was a bit disappointing. It seemed like a store bought roll, it wasn't warm, and the butter came in those little plastic packs. The three-year-old enjoyed stacking the butter containers, for what it's worth. There was a full bar, but since I was eating with some younger cousins I endeavoured not to get s**t faced, so I can't speak to the quality of the drinks. I will return.

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    Our go to place to eat at when in the city. Quiet, comfortable atmosphere with friendly, professional servers and the food is amazing.

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    Uccellino

    4.3(97 reviews)
    1.1 km
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    We were lucky enough to enjoy the tasting menu at Uccellino after a long day of meetings. It was…read morethe perfect way to unwind, slow down and recover from the day. I started the meal with the Don Vito cocktail, a spirit forward sweet concoction of Cognac, Bourbon and Limoncello. Immediately felt like it set the perfect tone for dinner. The tasting menu started with four appetizers, the Arancini, Goat Ricotta Crostini, Insalata Siciliana and the Culatello. My favorite was the arancini as it was packed full of melty cheese with so much flavor. The culatello was a crowd favorite and the crostini was a great palate cleanser. For secondi we had the Truffle Gnudi and Paccheri. For people who like meaty flavors go with the paccheri, but I liked the light cheese and truffle of the gnudi. By the time the Pollo Al Mattone came around, I could only manage a mouthful of the succulent brick chicken and the fresh cabbage salad as I was so full and would need to be rolled out of the restaurant. We ended with the Chocolate Budino, which was dark, creamy and delicious. A great tasting menu at a great price, especially compared to Toronto prices!

    I feel it's a bit challenging to rate this business. I start…read morewith things I didn't like much and end with positives: The place was very very noisy! It felt like a busy bar during an important hockey game! The lighting was not the best and it was affecting the ambiance and vibe of the business! These two items bothered me a bit! The staff was nice and helpful and pretty efficient! The food quality, the taste and the presentation were all really good! I loved them all! The wine our friend ordered was really good and overall I enjoyed our food and drink a lot. I think this business has room for improvement! However I'll still go back there as it is!

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    Violino Ristorante - Calamari

    Violino Ristorante

    4.2(116 reviews)
    1.4 km
    $$$

    Bottom level was 40% full 7PM on a Tuesday night. Upstairs was booked for private event…read more Server was professional if not a little stiff. Place has "very fancy" feel and would be good for special events/celebration dinners. Free bread to start was fine but not the best I have had. I prefer mine with butter but the oil/vinegar is probably more typical. We tried the: Calamari: 10/10, great texture, loved that we got 2 sauces to dip in. Fettuccine Tavolino (cheese wheel pasta): 10/10. Boyfriend was not too full after. Pasta was cooked perfectly. Nice cheesy creamy flavor. Ravioli Alla Zucca: 9/10, I can't remember if there were 6 or 7 ravioli in the dish. Very pleasing presentation. In my opinion too many sundried tomatoes. I love that it comes with sundried tomatoes as that added some great tang/flavor. Ravioli themselves were perfectly cooked. Brown butter sauce was excellent and wanted more. Creme Brule: 9/10, exactly as expected, definitely enough to share between 2 people. Affogato: vanilla gelato was 11/10 good to me but boyfriend didn't like the flavor. We both agree the espresso was excellent. Very small portion (too small to share!). Free cookies at the end were fine. Overall food was excellent and I'll be back but to try something different on the menu.

    I had really high hopes for this meal but it was just so very disappointing and I can't imagine…read moreever returning. To be clear, the service was not 1 star. We were greeted nicely, asked where we wanted to sit and had our water orders taken quickly. We had to wait a while for our server but I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt as I don't think he is a server and may have had other things to do. But it w asnt busy and we were paying a lot so I should expect a little more attentive service. We eventually ordered an appetizer, each had a special and drinks . The appetizer was a lobster and cream cheese dip with toasted pita. And it was very good, though the pita was just cut in triangle. Hard to mess that up. The dip was fantastic and cheesy with big chunks of lobster. Great start and we were excited. That is the end of anything good. My wife ordered the special ravioli with shrimp, scallops and mussels. The shrimp was decent but nothing special. The scallops needed a better sear and were a bit soggy. The mussels were so small as to be almost tasteless. But the crime was the actual ravioli. It was thick and under cooked. The stuffing was good but you can't get over the huge bites of undercooked pasta. It was very off putting. The sauce and stuffing made it palatable but my wife couldn't finish .And I know it wasn't just us because I talked to friends at another table who said the same thing about theirs. I ordered the surf and turf special. Big mistake. Great presentation with the big lobster tail and good looking steak. The lobster was good. Not great. But it was a bit bland if you didn't dip it in the butter. And it seemed way smaller than the shell. I gave a bite to my wife and that left me with basically 3 more bites. And I'm not talking big bites. Normal bite sizes. Seemed the shell was larger than the meat in it. The steak looked great. But I couldn't even swallow the first bite. It was so stringy and fatty. It is hard trying to spit out food at a fancy restaurant. But I had to. And not just once! Every piece around the edge was fatty and gristly and stringy and I couldn't eat it. I tried to cut around the sides and just eat middle pieces. Managed to get a couple pieces but most of them were still stringy and I had to chew forever to get it down to size to swallow. My jaws hurt. In the end, I managed to eat less than half and left two big spit balls of inedible meat and the circumference of fat on the plate. To make it worse, it was close to rare and almost raw looking in some parts despite ordering medium rare. Just an awful steak all around. The mashed potatoes were very good though not plentiful and not near enough to overcome the meat. The veggies of one carrot, one bush of broccoli and a couple soggy zucchini slices were well done and actually I could have made a meal of them and been almost satisfied. When we started the dinner a group of four was sat behind us and they were the loudest people ever. No indoor voices. They seemed to know our waiter as they had a couple loud conversations with him and he was over a lot. I mean our food was terrible but the ambience had been nice. There was at least that. But now even that was ruined by these people. And I know I can't blame the restaurant for that. But I will say that they got much more attention from that point than we did. I actually think he came over exactly once to see how things were and we didn't get offered another drink at all. Our water glasses were refilled, not always by him. Again, maybe he had other things to do, but he seemed to have time for this other table. But I would still expect more attentive service at a place like this. By this time, we just wanted to leave. My wife still had half her plate and my plate looked like a bloody massacre on porcelain. Then our waiter came with a dessert with a sparkler going. Our friends surprised us by ordering it. It was bread pudding with a ball of vanilla ice cream. The bread pudding was good not great. IBut it was passable and it was free so that makes it better. Ice cream is ice cream and great but it is ice cream and hard to mess that up. In all it was a passable dessert but did not come close to making up for the atrocity that was the main course. Unfortunately, we are not the kind to send food back or cause a scene but it would have been deserved. Anyways, he leaves us the machine and we don't see him again. Got a good bye and thanks from the hostess but that was it. We got in the car and looked at each other and agreed it was terrible and we would never go back and that we would have a do-over anniversary in a couple months to make up for it. Such high expectations and promising start but overall not good at all. There are too many good restaurants to go to and explore in this city to waste another night there.

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    Bianco - Pistachio chocolate tart $12

    Bianco

    4.1(74 reviews)
    1.6 km

    Place was 50% full Saturday at 2PM. Gender specific bathrooms with stalls…read more Place feels very classy and professional. Server was nice but never refilled our table water even after we moved it a couple times to be within her view of the table (my friend swears he saw her see us move it to the edge of the table too). Rialto Float cocktail was nice if you like Pisco. Royal Jamaican Ginger beer was good too. Olive Calde - large portion for price. Olives were fine. Calamari - 10/10 delicious, dips were great too. Gnocchi with pancetta - 10/10, surprising filling and even though the Gnocchi were huge chunks they were well cooked. Waitress recommend Campanella Aragosta - 7/10. If you like spicy it's fine but otherwise the flavor is actually very bland. Pasta itself was unique and well cooked. Large portion. Beef Brisket Agnolotti - 7/10, 8 large ravioli filled with brisket. Sauce was good, ravioli were well cooked but brisket inside was pretty underwhelming. Friend who got this dish was ++ hungry still after and said he would order something else next time for the price. Funghi Cipolla - 8/10, it was as expected. Ricotta cheesecake - cheesecake itself was great with the ricotta taste but crust was soooo bad. So overly thick and dry and considering our waitress failed to give us water the entire meal it was impossible to eat (so dry). Date cake - Unfortunately they didn't have gelato as was advertised on the menu to go with the cake so whipped cream was substituted. Was told this only after we ordered and friend asked for the flavors of gelato. Cake had a few uncooked flour lumps. Flavor was fine but not as flavorful/spice-heavy as I hoped. Sprouts on top looked really messy but tasted fine. Overall not a seamless experience as I would have expected from an establishment of this caliber.

    It was my first experience. It was a sunny day and we looked for a nice restaurant with patio and…read morewe found this restaurant and went there. The place was beautifully designed and decorated. The staff were friendly and they had a big patio. We ordered some drinks and all of them were delicious and fantastic. The appetizers were delicious with big portions. The food was delicious and we loved them. Desserts were also very delicious! Overall we loved our experience and we will definitely go back there again! :)

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