Mimico Cruising Club — Restaurant in Toronto

Having been there several times for dinner with his friends, my husband suggested that he take me and another couple for dinner at the restaurant. We are not members which had never been a problem before as he had been welcome and had a very good experience every time he had previously dined there.

I find it interesting that my blonde, blue eyed husband had visited with his also blonde and blue eyed friends previously and had a nice time. The night in question however, visiting with myself and another couple of visible mixed ethnicities we were being buzzed in and informed staff we were not members but there to dine. We were told that was no problem and our party of four was seated, we were given menus and we ordered. After about fifteen minutes a memeber of staff came to our table and ask us to leave. Shocked, we asked why and he said it was because we are not members. Informing him that my husband had dined there several times before the staff member said his GM ask that we leave. Apparently four well dressed people quietly chit chatting waiting for dinner was so egregious to them their GM needed to intervene. Absolutely horrified by the entire experience and have never experienced this in my life. Looks like if you look a certain way ( cough cough ) you will have no problem. They clearly only want ‘their own kind” there.

We live right next door at Marina del Rey as do our friends who also own in Marina del Rey. We went to La Vecchia for dinner instead and had a fantastic time. Wonderful atmosphere, fresh take on modern Italian cuisine, nice wine list and charming waitstaff...

I am going to give this place 4 stars with an explaination. First let me explain, we had my daughters wedding here and it was lovely, wait staff were very nice and professional, George was wonderful.

The problem we had was with the general manager John. Very unprossional man and very unorganized. When we first went to see him, he provided us with a quote. When we went back to book, he gave us an entirely different quote that was a thousand dollars more, thank goodness we kept our copy. We upgraded the wine which we didn't get, the waiters didn't have a guide on which meals the guests were to have because John didn't give him the info we provided him so I had to go over the entire meal plan with them. He was supposed to be there the day of wedding, he was not. We were supposed to have drinks and snacks provided at waters edge while having pictures done, he didn't tell staff to do this. They were supposed to cut and serve the wedding cake, they did not. He didn't have the garbage bins emptied and the smell wafted up on the balcony which was offensive. He emailed my daughter on the eve of her wedding saying she owed an extra five hundred dollars for extra guests because he miscounted getting her all upset.

If you book here, really watch this guy and insist he be there the day of wedding. He won't give you his cel number so you can't get ahold of him unless the place is open. I wonder if the owner of the place knows about...

I was a member here for a short period of time, I was required to sign an additional document to obtain my membership stating I would not run any type of business from the club. Almost immediately John Pereira / General Manager was trying to get my to run business from the club, I declined and complaints against my membership ensued. My membership was revoked without reason or explanation ( which is technically allowed under their new guidelines - so be careful ) I later found out from members that stories were fabricated about me operating business from the club THIS IS FULLY UN TRUE and completely disgusting how I was treated. I had my family and friends at the club only a few times and they were harassed and kicked off the property - one time the police was called on a group of my friends for a reason I am ashamed and embarrassed a place I called my club would take part in.

Be careful joining here, read the fine print, walk...