Queen Mother Café (Toronto, ON)

Sometimes having low or not having expectations can be a good thing as whatever you get can become very nice. Sometimes it does not help at all. I did not know what to expect from Queen Mother Cafe but I was certainly not impressed.

We went to Queen Mother Cafe on aTuesday night and surprisingly (at least to me), the place was full. They have a bar and a few sessions of dinning tables. The decor is very Queen West, church benches, old photographs on the wall, and vintage light fixtures. Quite relaxed. I liked!

It was not a bad meal but what I experienced was not a good meal. I have to say that my friends were not totally disappointed with their food. One of the dishes was extremely sweet but I did not taste it so I rather not comment much on it.

My main was Khao Soy Gai as I felt that I needed to ask for asian food in there. It was a traditional northern Laotian dish of chicken and noodles. The chicken was strangely soft. The noodles were very similar to cup noodles so I did not enjoy that part much.  The broth of ginger, fresh Thai herbs, turmeric, curry and coconut milk was the only thing I could enjoy in my meal but I left half of the noodles on the plate.

We had dessert and I really don't know what I ate as I took a picture of the one I wanted to try and showed to the waitress but it consisted of some buttery cream, cake, walnuts, and meringue. It was a huge piece. We shared between the four of us and we left most of it on the plate. It was too sweet. 

The service was ok and the place itself was nice but I would not come back there based on the food I had. Thank you God I was in good company!