Toledo

Great tasting food, friendly and helpful service. The baked snapper with house special sauce was good, albeit a bit salty. The restaurant does not allow us to open our own wines, so we ordered 3 bottles from the expansive wine list. Overall a memorable dinning experience. Will come back for sure. The setting and decor is along the classic and traditional theme.

Very beautiful restaurant with plenty of space, excellent service, and great food. Waiters and management were very kind to our large group and we will certainly plan a trip back. Kid-friendliness: They do not have high chairs/booster seats and there is nice decor within reach of small children but management was so kind to our 2 toddlers and went out of their way to interact with them and bring them sliced fruit to keep them entertained.

A portal to another time with phenomenal service and high class old timey vibes.

My second favorite class in college was public speaking. My favorite assignment in said class was to talk about anything I wanted for 10 minutes. I chose to talk about bananas. There is only one type of banana that is commercially sold, the Cavendish. Since there is only one main type of banana, one disease that does not get along with our good old friend the Cavendish could wipe out nearly the whole population of bananas. This is what is happening now. Bananas are going extinct. If we could cross breed the Cavendish with another type of banana, then this new banana could have the genetic resistance to fight the new disease. But! Most Cavendish bananas do not have seeds, and you need seeds to cross breed (only 1 in 12,000 Cavendish bananas have a seed). In an effort to try and get ahold of a Cavendish banana which could cross-breed, scientists are crushing thousands of bananas in an attempt to find some seeds. To showcase this during my speech, I took a towel out of my backpack, laid the towel on the floor, and took out a ziploc bag with a banana. I looked around the room, and jumped on the banana, crushing it for everyone to see. Unfortunately, there was no seed to be found in my banana. Given that I am unable to solve the problem of bananas going extinct, I thought I might as well enjoy the glorious banana fruit while I still can. And that is certainly what I did at Toledo. The grey sole with bananas and hollaindaise sauce immediately caught my eye as I peered through the menu. My parents said “David, don’t get that”, but I got it anyways. I’m such a rebel. After an adequate amount of time in between order time and delivery time, the waiter came and lowered the plate in front of me. At first, I was confused, the bananas were nowhere to be found! But I soon realized they have been browned through cooking. I realize I am giving an incredible amount of detail right now without even telling you how the fish dish tasted! It was lovely. I have never had such a beautiful sweet fish before. It made me think, “why don’t we put bananas on everything!” I was beyond satisfied. At the end of my banana speech I said “Now the story of the banana is much more interesting than you probably imagined. Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, don’t judge a banana by its peel” (for additional dramatic flare, at this moment I also brought an additional banana out of my backpack and unpeeled it while I said this line) Don’t judge a book by its cover, and don’t judge a grey sole by its banana.

My friend is elderly and likes a quiet restaurant with table covers which are now few and far between in NYC. We had dined here back before 2000 and decided to try it again for our holiday meal. Just perfect! The food was wonderful and service was excellent. Thanks for a memorable dinner.