What's a good Toronto restaurant for a party of 10 to go to?

Question

A friend and I are graduating from university this October and our families might go have dinner together afterwards.

What's a good restaurant in downtown Toronto we could all go to? We're looking for a place with nice atmosphere, decent prices (similar to Red Lobster pricing maybe), and a menu with good variety (e.g. grill, seafood, pasta).

Pickle Barrel Grand would be great for its variety, but I've been there far too many times already. If you can suggest a restaurant similar to the Pickle Barrel that would be great!

Answer 1

All you can eat buffet

Answer 2

My favourite place to eat in Toronto is the Mandarin, they have chinese food, but also a selection of other types for those who aren't into chinese (such as Prime Rib, Sushi, Kabobs, etc) with a large party everyone can immediately start to eat, no waiting around to order, as it is a buffet. It's about $22 weekends (less weekdays) which is good for all you can eat. Compared with dinner with appetizers, dessert you easily spend that much at Red Lobster/Montanas/Boston Pizza sort of places. Good selection of seafood, fresh.

Answer 3

If you want something similarly priced, with a large menu and a unique atmosphere, I suggest Richtree in the BCE Centre. You can reserve your own European-themed room (they're all gorgeous) or just get tables inside.

Basically, when you arrive, each person is given a swipe card. Instead of ordering food, you walk around to different stations - from seafood to omelettes to grilled steaks to fruit salads to imported beer to Chinese stir fry to desserts to fresh bread - whatever you can imagine.

Then you order what you want, and the cute uniformed chef at the station makes it on the spot, puts it on your plate, and charges it to your card. You do this for the whole meal, and at the end, you give your cards to a cashier who rings them up and you pay.

Basically, it's a restaurant styled like a beautiful European marketplace. It looks really pretty inside. Apparently there's even a summer patio right now.

You can check out the website here: http://www.richtree.ca/

At the top of the page, there is a photo thing - watch them all to get an idea of what it looks like there.

This is a pic of some of the rooms you can reserve for your families: http://www.richtree.ca/restaurant-images...

Again, I suggest the BCE location because it's the nicest. My friends and I ended up there randomly once - party of 6 - and it was awesome. The service was good too, and the food was quick (and we stuffed our faces!).

Anyway, good luck & congratulations on your graduation!