Le Petit Castor has opened in the old Thai Magic location in Rosedale and already has locals clamoring to get a table on Saturday night. This is THE place to see and be seen at the moment. The owners have done wonders making the place over into a cozy but stylish "gastropub", complete with rather pricey favourites like chicken wings, steak frites and mac and cheese.
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I accidentally cast a 2/5 vote when I meant to cast a 5/5. I think this place is fantastic. It's intimate and cozy yet lively and social. The atmosphere is great and the food is delicious!
Hello! the food here is the best of Toronto, Mariano and Sarah do a great job, I hope we can go on tour this winter will send a big hug from Puerto Vallarta,Mexico and we hope to be in touch soon.
My friends had a very bad experience there and will never go back. The doorman behaved like an incredibly surly and arrogant sod toward them. When he wrongly accused my friend of being impaired because she tripped on a grate that caught her heel, she argued with him, and won the astounding reply that she should be at home looking after her children, not out at a restaurant with her friends! Unfounded judgement on patrons from an unterclass doorman? I relayed this to a colleague in my firm and they had a similarly unpleasant experience with the thug at the door. An email on this to the manager, Roxanne Chapman went unanswered. My business (and that of my colleagues) will go elsewhere.
The food here is the best of Toronto ? Where do you normally eat? McDonald's? The Salvation Army soup kitchen?
This is an email to the owner of LPC -- with no response and still no resolution.
I am writing to you to review the events of January 29, 2009, my only visit to Le petit castor. I arrived for a 7pm reservation at 7.15pm, 15 minutes after my fellow diners. I went to the booth we were assigned, table 20, and greeted my friends. I was then approached by the hostess/server who offered to take my coat. She at no time made any mention of the lack of a secure area or coat check, or point out that she was only offering to hang my coat on unsupervised hooks that are accessible to all guests as well as staff. We ordered dinner, ate dinner and paid, our bill totalling $360.70 plus gratuity. At this point, we went to retrieve our coats and it was then that I realized my coat had not been placed in a coat check. My coat
was nowhere to be found, the employee who took it unfortunately could not remember where she put it, said she logged it, but it showed two places where it could be. It was in neither place, nor was it on any of the other hooks in the restaurant. After an hour-long search, I left the restaurant without a coat. To this day, my coat has not been found or turned in.
You, as the employer and owner of Le petit castor, are responsible for the actions of your staff. You stated in a letter to Sean O’Shea of Global Television that “Le petit castor does not have a coat check. We don't have room for one. We have coat hooks that people can use but they are responsible for their personal belongings.” I’m concerned that you are not aware that I did not hang my own coat. In fact, your staff offered and took my coat and hung it up. She took the responsibility by offering to take my personal belonging in the first place. You also state, “And since we don't have a coat check we don't have a record.” This is something else that has not been acknowledged or brought to your attention – your staff logged it, therefore this is a record and by doing this you have assumed responsibility. You point out in your letter, “we would be out of business if we handed out money to people without a record of anything”, which makes one wonder whether this has happened before, and if yes, you still had your staff offering to take coats/and or personal belongings, and establishing a system by logging the location of said items. I am victim of that negligence and am without a coat, one that retailed for $590.00, plus 15% taxes, totalling $698.50.