We visited today after the new owners took the ownership. Food is a lot better and tastier now then before. There are new varieties of Georgians food and it's a welcomed addition. Highly recommend. Their hachipouri and hinkali are very delusious.
amazing selection of authentic recipes and great service. Fully recommended especially if you are just visiting toronto and want to try casual but authentic restaurant.
We used to visit this restaurant frequently. They have new owners, and our previous visit was already a pretty bad experience. We decided to give it another chance. Came to dine with my parents and daughter. Our experience: 1. The order took around 30 minutes...to arrive, despite the restaurant being basically empty. Water came room temperature. No free refills for coffee!!! 2. Prices are now higher and the portions smaller. 3. Food is much worse than it used to be. Out of 6 dishes we ordered only mamaliga was good. The rest ranged from below average to plain bad. 4. They automatically add 13% service to the bill. It is not clearly indicated on the bill, so I thought it's tax (which is "accidentally" also 13% in Ontario) and added tip on top of the 13%. There are some places that add automatic tip, but then they usually disable the tip option on the machine. I'm pretty sure this 13% is intentional to get people add tip on top of it. 5. The bill is written by hand and calculated manually!!! Congratulation Moldova! You have just lost another long term customer. Based on number of customers in the restaurant, I'm not alone. You can fool people only once.More
Food not perfect, but good enough. What we find very unpleasant is that prices higher than you can see in online menu and that did not ask you if you want or don't want to pay tips the just included extra 13% into your price...of each dish. They did not hide it - if you make some search you will find it in tiny font in very end of the menu. If you do not notice it you will pay tips twice. I find this trick disgusting, so I will never come back to this place.More
I haven't been in Moldova last few months. Now a see the menu is changed! I tried fish, lamb shish kebab - the food is really tasty!! Like a home-made in a good russian traditions. The meat was so fresh, medium cooked. The plates are...decorated so lovely (salads, main meal and all deserts) I think they also changed something in interior design (maybe lights?) I will definitely consider this place for the birthday party 😊More
If you are looking for a truly Eastern European experience, go here. And I do not just mean the food which is truly authentic. I mean the service too - it is slow and even though our group of 6 was the only group there...we constantly had to call the waitresses if we wanted anything as they were too busy doing more important stuff. Having said that, they were lovely too, so it it hard to be too harsh on them. The food is definitely cheap - $50 per person (including tax and tip) for appies, a main and a glass of wine. Later on in the evening a group of twenty men showed up, speaking Russian and Ukrainian, some dressed in Adidas track suits, drinking champagne with their perogies. Yes, this is the truly Eastern European experience! Oh, and skip the "not so dry" (waitresses' words) red wine (Mazania Valley) - it is horribly sweet.More
It used to be a good place, but it went down the hill. Service was always lousy, but the food was pretty good. Now the food is pretty average, and the service still pretty bad. Service very slow even when the place not busy. No...free refill for coffee (probably the only place in Toronto that doesn't offer free coffee refill). Orders often messed up. Lamb was over cooked. Veal not as it used to be. Prices are reasonable. Not recommended anymore.More
By recommendation of a friend we dined in Moldova restaurant, 5000 Dufferin Street. This is a simple and unpretentious restaurant with friendly staff serving Moldavian, Ukrainian, Russian and couple of Georgian and Armenian dishes. The food has homemade quality and is served by friendly and...pleasant staff, a quality which sometime is lacking in more “higher end” and expensive restaurants. We ordered Khinkali (Georgian dumplings), Lobio (Kidney bean salad), Eggplant Ikra, Cabbage roll, Baked rainbow trout and couple of other appetizer to share between us ( two couples). Generally all dishes were between average to good. If one likes to experience different national dishes this is a place to try. Since there is no rating between Average and Very Good I give it 3 star.( There should be a rating for GOOD, better than average but not VERY GOOD).More
Let's talk about the Good. The food is plentiful good wholesome food. Anyone can find food even if your vegetarian or Vegan. The Bad well the waitress did not know that sour-cream in borscht soup is a big no no to a vegan The Ugly...well be prepared to wait a long long long time even to pay the bill But because the food was good I gave them 4 stars.More
Service was bad , food was ok... nothing special ! We were waiting for a salad 15 min!!! Why so long??? And restaurant was not busy.. Don't waist your money!!!!
