Piano Piano Restaurant

One of my favourite places that's close to home, so I don't need to make the trek downtown. We brought my mom here for her birthday and she was very happy with the food. We ordered the calamari, caesar salad, mussels, burrata to start, and we shared the 16oz rib-eye, tortelli bolognese and chicken cacciatore. Everything was absolutely delicious, the steak was cooked perfectly, and even though we had to request the gluten-free version of the tortelli for my sister, the dish was still very tasty. I wish I could give this a 4.5 instead of 4 because the issue small but it still left kind of a bad taste in my mouth. We had booked the reservation for 6PM, and I was running a bit late but the rest of the table arrived on time. I had told my family that I would be at least 20 mins late and to go ahead and order drinks and appetizers without me. My sister kept calling me telling that they were rushing them to order and asking where I was because they had another table coming in at 8PM. I arrived at 6:20 and we promptly ordered our mains. The service was great but they seemed to be in a rush to clear our tables and drinks because they kept coming over to check on us to see if we had finished. Then at shy of 7:30, one of the servers asked if they could bring us the bill and that if we wanted dessert, we had to eat it at the bar. I'm not going to lie, I was slightly taken aback and offended almost? I understand that I had arrived late, but we had most of the food ordered already...there is no indication of a seating limit when I reserved--although we probably wouldn't have taken more than 2 hours anyway. It was my mom's birthday, we were there to have a good time and celebrate, I didn't appreciate being rushed the whole time and also being urged to eat our dessert at the bar when it wasn't even 7:30 yet! We didn't end up ordering a dessert for my mom because I didn't want us to be awkwardly sitting on a bar stool while she ate it. I'm just a little disappointed at the situation, nothing against the servers at all, just the overall vibe of being rushed didn't allow us to eat comfortably.

Amazing service! Love that they have tons of variety and dietary options on the menu. The chopped salad was delicious and I also got a gluten-free Mushroom Cavatelli. Great little portion sizes so I didn’t feel overstuffed but also delicious food although a little overpriced. Worth it for special occasions though!