Trattoria Semplice — Restaurant in Orangeville

From my friend: I don't have a google email so I wrote a review on Trip Adviser this is what I posted:

Pasta is NOT freshly made ! Service was terrible, felt rush through our meal. Started with appetizers before we were even done we had our main course delivered. Had to ask for water, a wine list and what was on the menu for dessert. Sitting trying to enjoy our coffee and the staff was counting the till and cleaning up around us it was only 8:30pm. When we arrived the place was empty that makes sense now. Lots of great places to eat in Orangeville and this is not one!

3 others in our group fully concur. In addition, the waitress dropped several dishes at our friends feet splashing oil/balsamic onto a pair of Brown's cork platform neutral tone fabric upper and while the waitress apologized and offered a damp rag to clean, no offer from owner for drycleaning. Not even a free coffee.

I am Italian and know from gnocchi. These were little square bits of non kneaded dough that I couldn't finish because of the heaviness. No thumb print in the dough.

We were charged $70 each for a terrible and rushed evening. 4 women on the town with unlimited time and credit card limit wil not be back. Try harder to earn good patronage in an off the beaten path location of Orangeville.

We had a more superior experience at Grand Spirits in Grand Valley, off the beaten path. Not too long ago. We shut down the place and were serviced hand over foot. They charged us for their service, and as we happily paid, they offered us all a free shot for the road as our paid designated driver waited for us in the parking lot to drive us all...

Everything was perfect, we (2) were there for lunch. Good table service. Clean well stocked washrooms both men and woman's. Plenty of parking out front, restaurant is in a strip type plaza, end unit. Causal dining dress, tablecloths clean and at proper lenght. Good choice of beverages. Limited menu choices, but given that everything is made fresh daily, I would take quality over quantity and choice any time. Caesar salad crisp no brown spots just the appropriate amount of house style caesar dressing, not to many croutons. I would have served it on a cold plate. Old school hot food hot plates, cold food cold plates with clean edges! Silverware clean and polished no water stains. Spicy Caesar drink was good, pickled asparagus nice touch, Lime wedge garnish was dry. If you trim both ends off and remove center core it's easier to hold and lime or the juice of the wedge goes into the glass and not everywhere. Pasta perfect texture and portion. Gnocchi melt in your mouth, the best I have had in the last 2 decades. Would recommend this place to anyone. Great food and service. We were there for lunch on Valentine's day, in and out just under $100.00. Less gratuities. A must if your...

First off, we are Italian, so we know. That was by far one of the worst meals we ever had. They definitely need a new chef that actually knows how to made a good sauce!

They didn’t offer bread, that alone should tell you what kind of restaurant this is. Thats unheard of for an Italian restaurant.

All 4 of our main dishes were horrible. The Alfredo sauce was grey, oily and tasted nothing like Alfredo, my pasta wasn’t cooked enough so it was hard, my wife’s gnocchi was overcooked and a mushy mess. The tomato sauce was very acidic, chef boyardee would have been better. And the chicken with the pasta was rock hard, almost inedible.

Very disappointing because we came here a few other times and it was decent, maybe open a recipe book or take a few classes?

He didn’t charge us for the main dishes, I appreciate that, but seriously you need a cook with experience

We were also on the left side of the restaurant that was freezing cold, something needs to...