Monk Kitchen at Templar Hotel - Toronto

My partner and I visited this restaurant to celebrate our three year anniversary.

Summary: Dinner service was slow, bread was cold, water was not complimentary, food was average, but overpriced. I visited this restaurant with a group of 15 people to celebrate a birthday.

This restaurant review is a negative one, as the reviewer had a bad experience that was made even worse by an arrogant manager or owner who does not know how to provide a high-quality dining experience.

In a fuzzy atmosphere, certainly under the floor, for this dinner at 15 where the room had been privatized, everything was perfect (except the clim that forced us to dine with our coats ) the originality of the dishes, the qualities of the dishes and the enthusiasm of the kitchen staff coming to tell us what we were handling with passion and greedy contrasting with the efficient but remote and so thin waitres that the pleasures

We had lunch at the Chef's table right inside the kitchen, it was simply amazing. There was no set menu the Chef asked us what type of meal we were looking for, we went with brunch, and he went and worked his magic with all fresh ingredients making the meal hot and fresh in front of us. Paired with some amazing wine that afterwards I went ordered a few bottlles! I even tried some foods like shrip and mushrooms that I would'nt normally because they're often not fresh or prepared well, this was not the case and was the best shrimp I have ever had and the mushrooms wern't over powering like in many other restaruants dishes.If you get a chance to sit at the Chef's table, do it!