Summer House - Filipino Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Toronto

I visited here in 2022, and again just a few days ago. Unfortunately the verdict's not great. More details below.

My wife and I visited here a few days ago. The door was held open, which in a way was kind of nice and inviting, so far so good.

When we walked in, we weren't greeted by anyone, and ended up walking further towards the back to speak to someone. We asked to see the menu and were handed a paper menu that looks like it's been used as a regular dine in menu.

We decided we'd sit down and eat in, even though we live a short walk away and it would have been ultimately much more comfortable to just take the food to go and eat at home (foreshadowing).

The first thing I noticed is that the person dealing with us didn't look particularly interested or engaged, but at least she had a smile and was somewhat friendly.

Something we noticed immediately is that the place looks really run down. It doesn't look like it's properly looked after. The tables are old and damaged, and look like they're from the 80s. There are boxes and random things just stacked in the corner for guests to see. And two fans, one standing right in front of the kitchen, and the other was ON a dining room table.

My wife ordered the Pancit, and I had a BBQ chicken combo.

The Pancit came out relatively quickly, less than 10 minutes. Which is good. It didn't look super appetizing and my wife thought it was quite bland and "nothing special". The portion was huge too, which you'd think is good, but it was way too much for her to eat.

Before my food came out, my wife and I decided that we were going to take the food to go (even though we still had to wait for mine to be done) because we kept having to swat flies away from our table.

As for me, I didn't much like my food either. For one, it took well over 20 minutes to come out, AFTER my wife had already began eating hers. That should never happen. The restaurant was dead and we were the only two guests. There is no reason the kitchen staff couldn't have the two meals come out together so that my wife and I could enjoy our food at the same time.

The BBQ combo apparently comes with 3 metric tons of rice (and not very good rice either) with the two loneliest little halves of broccolis on top of it you've ever seen in your life. The chicken itself WAS barbequed, and actually decently seasoned. However, it was charred and overcooked, dry and otherwise unremarkable. It tasted more like dry rub jerk chicken than a proper barbequed chicken. It was also packaged in a paper box, which leaked any of the juices that would have been in the chicken out and made a mess on our table.

I understand that this isn't exactly a fine dining restaurant, but there are hallmarks of a GOOD restaurant that are just not here.

Uninspired service, dated and damaged décor, barely passable and edible food and overall an uninteresting experience that I wouldn't look...

As a first time there I ask about one of favorite dish was on the menu. If there was any bones in sweet &sour pork. She assured me that there NO BONES in that dish. What did I received a sweet & sour pork had bones. I ate one piece and I didn't touch the of the meal. I lost my happetite. I ask the waitress to take off atleast 50 % but I got 10% & NO APOLOGIES FOR HER MISTAKE. WE were ingnore after serving us the last meal. By the way, THE REAL SWEET & SOUR PORK HAVE NO BONES. You should remove that meal from the menu. SHAME ON YOU...

Comment on the Owner: You did not reply to my real issues. You are only covering the waitress in which the waitress who serves us is NOT new waitress. She explained before the order and clarify that the sweet and sour pork with NO BONES. Supposed to give that MEAL as FREE because it's your MISTAKE. but instead 90% you ask the CUSTOMER TO PAY. The most important thing you did not ACKNOWLEDGE that you really don't know SWEET AND SOUR PORK. REMOVE that on your MENU. You don't how to do the dish properly stop doing fooling your customer. By the way your WAITRESS is not manageable and helpful I hope you kick her out too to learn her lesson or in the future your business...

This is the restaurant first impression don't last. We ate there after work and we order food sweet and sour pork, veggie rice and crispy pata. I would say sweet and sour are COPYCAT with bones and the sauce on the side. FYI you don't know the real sweet and sour pork. San ka makakakita ng sweet and sour na asa side ang sauce. Carrots so dry. Tapos canadian ang kasama mo bibigyan ka ng spoon and fork. VEGGIE RICE don't really look like and taste Veggie rice so dry. Crispy pata overcooked so very oily. Pagkabalik ng food dedma ka na lang not checking on you. And ang Cashier humahawak ng pera and food together no gloves, no hair nets...so surprise meron pa silang Pass.. they are not passing the standard of Food Handling.. last but not the least SMELLY WASHROOM down stairs. Mali na nga nila but they don't accept their mistake. "NO SORRY OR APOLOGY" and worse pinabayaran pa sa customer only 10% discount shame on you. Not recommend this to my FILIPINO friends and others. VERY POOR...