Dinner time!

After ‘trying’ to do some birthday/mothers day shopping for 7 people on friday in the city, we went to this new italian restaurant across from Starbucks (basically) at Queen Street Mall in that new building. It’s called Vapiano.

The system that the restaurant uses is very different to any other. First you grab a card and a menu, then you line up for whatever you want to eat (there’s a line for pasta, pizza, drinks etc), they cook the pasta in front of you (which was kewl to see), then you order and scan your card. Then, when you’re ready to leave, you go up to the front counter, they scan your card, and you pay the amount that you’ve spent.

The bad thing about this restaurant is that there’s no set tables. There’s tables up and down stairs, but there’s a limited amount. So if it’s busy, you find it hard to find a table. Greg and I were lucky (after being there for around 20 minutes, by the way) to find 2 seats. That being said, I would reccommend that you do not go there on friday nights…

The food was quite good though, and reasonably priced. We spent $39 and got 1 pasta meal, 1 pizza (they’re pretty big), a coke and an apple cider (it was a brand I hadn’t had before – shown bellow).

My EMPTY pasta bowl.

Bulmers? I wanted a Strongbow or 5 Seed…This was their subsitute. It wasn’t too bad! And the card we had to use on the side.