Today we decided to stop...

October 6th 2012

Villa
2277 Bloor st West
(Bloor and Runnymede)

It was one of those days when Cindy and I had gone to our nail salon in the Bloor West Village.  The place is just east of the Jane subway, but for the life of me I can't remember the name!!  Great place, you and your friends can go and get your feet and nails done all at once, no line ups.  New place, many pedicure chairs with all the massage features working!!  They also keep your utensils in a little box for you.  Try it some time.  Sorry, got off course!!
Food.
As I said Cindy and I often find ourselves in the Bloor West Village, so we decided after nails today, we would have some food.  We had passed this place a few times, but again had never really stopped and taken a look.
Today we decided to stop and read the menu and it had us hooked.  We liked the place from the very beginning.  The pizza ovens were just stunning, done in this great red tile.  The place was busy, as it should of been, it was a Friday night.
We got seated in the back, at a rather small table, which was actually very uncomfortable, because we had to keep moving things around to fit them on the table.  I prefer a table that tells me, "Thank you for coming in and dining with us tonight, I want to make you as comfortable as possible".  This was not one of those tables.  It was situated in the back bank of tables along the right wall.  They really wanted to pack the people in, it was obvious!!  We had done a bit of shopping and quite frankly there really wasn't any room for our bags either.  This was not making me happy.  I was hoping that the food would not disappoint.

I ordered some wine.  I found the wine list a little pricey, so I only ordered a half litre instead of a bottle and it was $28.50.   That's normally around the price I would pay for a bottle.  Any way!!

We both ordered appetizers.  Our server seemed to be I don't know, not really happy to be there?  He seemed to ignore us a bit.

Our appetizers came, Cindy had a mixed green salad, it looked yummy!!
I had ordered the marinated grilled calamari & tiger shrimp.  It was served with warm black olives, tomatoes, capers & baby spinach.  It was amazing!!  It is listed under salads, when you look for it.  It was really good.

Our mains were next.  I ordered potato gnocchi with walnut, gorgonzola cream sauce drizzled with arugula oil.  I added grilled chicken to it.  Cindy's main I am afraid, (it was some type of pasta) I can't remember, but whatever it was, she ordered grilled chicken to it as well.

They were both amazing, or to die for, which ever you prefer.  We both could not finish and choose to take doggie bags home.

I did notice that there were quite a few families with children in the restaurant, but they were obviously children who had been to "restaurants" before and were not running around screaming!  The hint of any of that and I would have been "check please"!!

Also I did notice, it was quite warm in the restaurant.  They had opened a back door, after several people complained about the heat.  Then there was a bit of a breeze!!

I ordered chocolate truffle for desert, it was very good.

Overall this place is very good. The decor is just gorgeous!  The great food seems to make up for the lack of service.  I am hoping that it was just an "off" day for him.  I would recommend this place to anyone.  It is a little pricey maybe for some, but we found it in line with any of the restaurants we have been to.

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