Trattoria Fieramosca — Restaurant in Toronto

We visited for dinner on Saturday evening. When the server appeared to fill our water glasses using a plastic pitcher we knew it was a bad sign. Most disappointing dining experience. We made the reservation based on reviews. I'm simply shocked this restaurant has a 4.5 rating. The food attempts to be high end fine cuisine but is really just pretending. We had the caprese salad. The tomatoes were large (rock) hard basic garden tomatoes - served freezing cold. The mozzarella was rubbery, not creamy like a caprese salad should be. The arugula was a basic run-of-the-mill salad. Excessive and boring. I had the black cod special. The portion was huge and that was all it had going for it. The cod was served on a big bowl full of under cooked garden vegetables (carrots and cauliflower) with watery-tomato sauce. It was a dish you'd expect at a family restaurant chain. It wasn't served how black cod should be. My husband's excessive serving of orecchette was bland and served in a bowl of liquid.

The only positive feedback we can share...the martinis were delicious and the server was lovely and friendly.

It was a cold evening but the dining room was uncomfortably cold and the washrooms were FREEZING. Yes, it was a very cold evening in the city but this is a restaurant - it should at least be warm. I understand the restaurant has been around for over 30 years - they've had plenty of time to figure out the heating.

The dining room is old and tired, not in a charming way. There was paint peeling from the ceiling above us. We were seated at a table beside a shelf loaded with about 100 bottles of wine that hadn't been dusted in the restaurant's 30years. I've not seen a worse display of wine.

I loved that it was a family-owned restaurant and that's whey we went. It's low end and overpriced. This is not a Yorkville-grade restaurant....

This is a great option for Italian in the Yorkville area. Since it is on a quiet residential street, it's less noisy/crowded than other options and the backyard patio is gorgeous and tucked away. In terms of food, it's authentic and fresh with quality ingredients. For food quality/value, I would place this restaurant as better than Cibo, Eataly, or Trattoria Nervosa in the area. Service was warm and attentive. They have daily specials - usually an appetizer, pasta, meat and seafood option.

My friend and I shared the burrata appetizer which is served with prosciutto and cherry tomatoes (seasonal special). I had the tagliatelle ai funghi -- such a classic dish and one of the best renditions of it. Very rich and creamy, and they don't skimp on the mushrooms! I had a bite of my friend's gnocchi and it was soft and pillowy, stuffed with cheese. Divine.

There is also a decent wine list. They can accommodate large groups. This is a great option if you are going to the ROM or a concert at Koerner Hall.

Green P parking nearby (enter on St. George) is $8 flat in the evening.

NB: You can only reserve by calling during business hours which is a bit inconvenient (no answering machine, no online booking).

If you want to sit on the patio, you must reserve for the patio. You can't reserve for inside and switch to patio or vice versa. Also kind of tricky if you reserve several days ahead and the weather is uncertain. So you just have to bargain on the weather. That said the patio is mostly covered so if it's not heavy rain, you're probably fine...

I ate here back on April 16th and forgot to do a review and I really wish i remembered because then i would've remembered the servers name or other details. My Wife and I were visiting Niagara for our anniversary/proper honeymoon and after seeing the falls and everything around it took a day trip to Toronto on one of our tour guides recommendations. Our initial reason was to check out the Toronto Zoo, as my wife loves to check out the zoos in different cities, and the Kensington market. However I decided this would be a good place to have our anniversary dinner since Toronto will have a lot of options. I chose this place because it wasn't too far from where we were when we got hungry and their menu looked good. It became very clear very quickly that we underestimated this place. We started off with the obligatory bread and ordered some stuffed mushrooms as a starter. The bread was amazing and the mushrooms were to die for. The sauce the mushrooms was in also went really well with the rest if the bread, we of course got more bread. They had a seafood pasta special going on at the time that had clams, mussels, shrimp, squid, crab legs and lobster with a red sauce and angel hair, I think, pasta.This was a huge bowl of pasta and my wife and I ate just about every bite of it, it was so good and despite their being crab legs it wasn't all that messy to eat. The waiter also brought us a free Tiramisu for our dessert since it was our anniversary. 10/10 would visit this place again if I were to ever find my way up to this corner of The Great...