The Old Spaghetti Factory

54 The Esplanade, Toronto
(416) 864-9761

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Taras Pater

Nice decor, food was meh.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

Lisa Conway

Always a very nostalgic place to go.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Jessica McRobbie

Michael was our waiter and was phenomenal

Kid-friendliness: Perfect place to bring kids. Enjoyable for the whole family. Quick service

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Old Spaghetti Factory

Ryan Burkett

Micheal was great tonight, the food was awesome and the atmosphere was grand. My wife enjoyed the old fashioned decor a lot. Only critique we'd have is that the bread was a bit hard and not easy to cut and the salad dressing(blue cheese) did not taste like blue cheese more like ranch.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spumoni Ice Cream, Minestrone Soup

Kasia P

one word - ABRAHAM. he was tending to our very chaotic table full of kids and he was amazing, made everything run smoother and with great attitude to any curveballs thrown his way, thanks!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Shristi Gupta

Great Italian food and customer service!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Chloe Shantz-Hilkes

Super family friendly place. We had great service from Dylan. Thanks!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Darryl Olczak

Liv our server was polite. Good size portions. Very unique atmosphere.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Spaghetti and Meatballs

Mohammad Ali

Solid restaurant. Food was great. Service was overall good. I really enjoyed the minestrone, tiramisu, and spumoni ice cream. The complimentary bread was great as well.

A couple things; firstly, pretty upset with Dylan (my server). I came with one other person (so we were a group of two). We get through our food, I ask Dylan to split the bill.

On each bill, we tipped a little over 10% by dollar amount. After I paid, Dylan made a very passive aggressive comment, "you know you could just tip 15% right? there's a button on the machine for that". Along with that, he clearly got pretty visually pissed that I only tipped about 10-11% (I tipped 7.50 total on a 67.80 after-tax bill).

Pretty passive aggressive thing to do as a waiter that's been acting real nice to our table the whole night. However, after a comment like that, it recontextualizes how the waiter was smiling with us and joking with us all night since it wasn't genuine at all, and makes me feel like I shouldn't have tipped him anything quite frankly.

Besides that, I was told by a friend who's come to the restaurant before that they offer a coffee or tea (it's included in your meal). However, Dylan never brought this up, and I only found out about this after I had already left.

Tip chasing and leaving out a part of the meal I paid for soured my experience because everything up to that point was great. Knocking off two stars for that.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 1

socratesindahouse

One of Toronto’s oldest Italian restaurants

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

Oleg Drozdov

Abraham was an amazing host and the mascarpone cheese ravioli was the best I've ever had!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Michael and Erika Coley

Very loud atmosphere. Food was ok but not a Wow factor. Very busy place. We sat in street car and was super uncomfortable warm up there.

Our waiter was a nice guy but he touched parm cheese with bare hands and then touched debt /visa machine and then opened a bottle of wine for another server. All without washing his hands. And not to mention he cleared plates away before that. Very disappointed to see. Our waiter was Karan.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 3

Service: 3

Erika Estrada

Dirty women washroom !!🤢 Don't blame the staff, it's the patrons. People do better please!!

Lajos Biszak

Liv was a very good server, great service, pasta was spectacular and I’ll always be coming back
Thank you

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Penne Arrabiata with Sausage

Haneen AlTurki

Liv was great! Thanks for an awesome dine!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

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