The Sal

118 Frederica St W, Thunder Bay
(807) 577-8635

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Elizabeth Taylor

Friendly, quick service, excellent food, clean and fresh.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Suzy Kennedy

Great local food. It’s often packed and busy so leave appropriate time to be patient- but trust me the food is so worth it

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Matt Suckel

When we got menus and she gave my wife, son and I adult menus and our daughter a kids menu. When she came back to take our order I asked if my 12 year old could order off the kids menu too. She said yes and I said that's great. We ordered fish and chips for both the kids off the kids menu(mostly because they wanted the ice cream and it sounded like a good deal).

Everything was fine for the meal and I said we enjoyed the food. Well after dinner we sat there for quite a while and finally she came over. At that point I asked about the kids ice cream. Her whole attitude changed again and she said we ordered adult meals for them. I immediately said we would not do that. I even pointed out we had specifically asked if my boy could order off the kids menu. She got very rude and snippy. I still expected her to apologize and fix her error. Instead she doubled down. She did charge us the kids rate after I argued and asked to speak with the manager about it but she also said the kids could not have ice cream because we were in the wrong. She made some comment about if we had ordered kids meals it would have had less fish. I agreed and said that would have been fine. The kids didn't even finish the food they had.

Finally when I went to the cash machine, she was again very rude and ignorant. She got angry when I asked to see the bill before I paid it and then again berated me in front of my kids when I asked her to remove the pop that was also on the bill(and included in the kids meals).

The whole situation left me complete flabbergasted and disgusted with her attitude. Even the other girl that said nothing didn't help.

Our waitress had no service skills at all and basically berated me the whole way out the door.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 1

Craig Seymour

Love the poutine

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 4

Brennan Posmituk

Great local spot! Dinner vibes. Ma and Pa vibes. Unreal food. Try the tacos! 🌮

Sean Demarce

What a fabulous diner. Everyone was super friendly and food was fantastic.

Frank Head (FrankieCanada)

Great diner, friendly staff.

Steve Trutenko

Great food and service

rob roy

One of my favorite restaurants in town, a menu that caters to a variety of tastes. Their fried chicken sandwich is life changing and you will be remembering the gravy until you die from clogged arteries. Their breakfast menu? Yeah, the only way it gets better is if you're going there to ease a blistering hangover.
Try it, enjoy it, repeat!

Kyle Shipston

Always fast, friendly and absolutely delish

Christina Eagles

It was my boyfriend and I's first time going to The Sal last evening. We bought 2 novemburgers and a buffalo poutine (gravy did come with the poutine). I order online and paid for the food. When we went in they told us there machines paper got jammed so the kitchen didn't get our order right away, so we had to wait maybe 5-10 minutes for our food. As an apology for the delay, as I already paid for the order she couldn't give us a discount, but the lovely waitress said she can give us some dessert for the troubles. Not only did she give us one but one for each of us which was a lovely surprise when we got home! We had no complaints about the food, it was all fabulous. We'll definitely be going back in the future! Thank you for the wonderful first experience!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Erik Meechem

Get the breakfast poutine with pico. It was the best breakfast dish I’ve had in years. Will not disappoint.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Breakfast Poutine

VARUNAVI GUPTA

My boyfriend politely even before ordering food asked if the server could change our table only because ours was really close to the entrance and was getting really cold. I understand that the place was extremely busy but my boyfriend clearly said, “once everyone is seated and if you have an empty table, can you please change our place if you could? Only bc it’s cold” Server rudely said, if you sat in a place already we can’t change and that’s it. We paid for our coffe and cookie and left.

Service: 1

Quang Nam Tran

We tried the Novemburger combo. Food was excellent and served fast. Their portion is huge.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Brad

Wonderful little diner. Good food, good prices, and great (and fast) service.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Hamburger

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