the food was great & i loved spending fun time here with my girls. thanks to Francesco for a lovely service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Jon Olinski
From the perspective of a 7 year old...The bread was a little crunchy and there should be root beer available.The chairs were very comfortable and fun. The food is excellent.The service is 5 star.From the rest of us -The food is excellent with great portions. There is a good Happy Hour from 3-6 pm everyday.The kids menu is really good and kids eat free Sunday.Excellent overall.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Richard Durrer
The staff for lunch and breakfast are awesome.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
Cate G
My husband and I came in for lunch today having never tried Symposium before. Our waiter was super friendly and did a great job through our time at the cafe. The problem is the food. We had the warm spinach dip to start, my husband had the Symposium burger and I had the vegetarian wrap with Caesar salad. Now, the Caesar salad was great, and the flavors of the other things were good, but good God they use so much oil that I had to hold my wrap with a napkin. And my husband's hamburger bun had disintegrated before he could even get a proper bite in. The dip even was solid oil. All we could taste, even after eating the dessert (which was great btw and I can see why Symposium is famous for dessert), was oil. There was no flavor left behind because of how oily everything was. I didn't expect that coming here and especially didn't think that it would be the case with a vegetarian wrap. You can literally see in the one picture how bad the oil was for even one part of my wrap; the other side was so wet the wrap had disintegrated basically. So while the service was great, and the dessert was really nice, I don't think we will be coming back here due to the food and the fact that it was almost $100 for our food when it didn't feel worth it.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 5
Lisa Indewey
Nice restaurant. Good selection of food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Magi M
Terrible food, overpriced, and questionable food safety. Would not recommend the breakfast or brunch menu here. I had a smoked salmon dish and my salmon was mostly grey and brown. Staff are nice but disengaged and busy.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Karen Parker
Wish I saw the bathrooms first! I would have never ate there! Meh food for high priced breakfast in utterly filthy bathrooms. If they keep their bathrooms that dirty, tells me how clean they keep their kitchen!
Jessica Wells
Amazing food, usually amazing staff until tonight. We had a very unfriendly server, she barely spoke 2 words to us, never checked on how the food was, didnt refill our empty glasses, when we asked for chocolate sundae for my son and she said okay chocolate ice cream and walked away, my son was like " oh its supposed to be a sundae " and she very rudely snapped back " they are the same thing "...which i had to clarify they are not the same thing as sundaes have whip cream and sprinkles. 1- you should never snap on a customer...nevermind a child, especially when you are incorrect!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Pad Thai
Tanya MacIntyre
Travelled from Goderich for a special luncheon to meet with my fellow authors from the "You Are... Enough" anthology. Six of us kept our server busy and she was always delightful and accommodating. The food was superb with very nice atmosphere and staff. Definitely worth the trip!
Makayla Sahs Bandy
Came in for dinner today, was our first time here and Francesco was an amazing server! He made some awesome recommendations for food, and everything was delicious! Drinks were also so good! I definitely recommend and will definitely be coming back soon!
Just had a great dinner with the wife and the service from Francesco was wonderful. All around awesome experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Martine Sweett
I went to Symposium on Good Friday for wine and apps. They have half price wine on Fridays but our server said the manager took it away for the holiday. I find this so cheap and disgusting to make some more money. We left and went to another restaurant that had the same special and didn’t even think of taking it away for the one Friday holiday a year. I’ve been here in the past and it was decent but if they are going to nickel and dime it’s not worth going back. Give your money to an independently owned small business instead.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Teresa Cengija
Our new breakfast spot! The last few times we’ve been, we have had the pleasure of Paul serving us! He is super friendly and very efficient with what he does. The food is always fresh and tasty.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Stacy Nunya
Went for breakfast today. Julie was awesome. My eggs were undercooked but, other than that everything was lovely. Best home fries in Guelph BY FAR! Thanks Julie! You were a busy lady and still did amazing for us ?
the food was great & i loved spending fun time here with my girls. thanks to Francesco for a lovely service!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
From the perspective of a 7 year old...The bread was a little crunchy and there should be root beer available.The chairs were very comfortable and fun. The food is excellent.The service is 5 star.From the rest of us -The food is excellent with great portions. There is a good Happy Hour from 3-6 pm everyday.The kids menu is really good and kids eat free Sunday.Excellent overall.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
The staff for lunch and breakfast are awesome.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 5
My husband and I came in for lunch today having never tried Symposium before. Our waiter was super friendly and did a great job through our time at the cafe. The problem is the food. We had the warm spinach dip to start, my husband had the Symposium burger and I had the vegetarian wrap with Caesar salad. Now, the Caesar salad was great, and the flavors of the other things were good, but good God they use so much oil that I had to hold my wrap with a napkin. And my husband's hamburger bun had disintegrated before he could even get a proper bite in. The dip even was solid oil. All we could taste, even after eating the dessert (which was great btw and I can see why Symposium is famous for dessert), was oil. There was no flavor left behind because of how oily everything was. I didn't expect that coming here and especially didn't think that it would be the case with a vegetarian wrap. You can literally see in the one picture how bad the oil was for even one part of my wrap; the other side was so wet the wrap had disintegrated basically. So while the service was great, and the dessert was really nice, I don't think we will be coming back here due to the food and the fact that it was almost $100 for our food when it didn't feel worth it.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 2
Service: 5
Nice restaurant. Good selection of food
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 4
Terrible food, overpriced, and questionable food safety. Would not recommend the breakfast or brunch menu here. I had a smoked salmon dish and my salmon was mostly grey and brown. Staff are nice but disengaged and busy.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 2
Wish I saw the bathrooms first! I would have never ate there! Meh food for high priced breakfast in utterly filthy bathrooms. If they keep their bathrooms that dirty, tells me how clean they keep their kitchen!
Amazing food, usually amazing staff until tonight. We had a very unfriendly server, she barely spoke 2 words to us, never checked on how the food was, didnt refill our empty glasses, when we asked for chocolate sundae for my son and she said okay chocolate ice cream and walked away, my son was like " oh its supposed to be a sundae " and she very rudely snapped back " they are the same thing "...which i had to clarify they are not the same thing as sundaes have whip cream and sprinkles. 1- you should never snap on a customer...nevermind a child, especially when you are incorrect!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 1
Recommended dishes: Pad Thai
Travelled from Goderich for a special luncheon to meet with my fellow authors from the "You Are... Enough" anthology. Six of us kept our server busy and she was always delightful and accommodating. The food was superb with very nice atmosphere and staff. Definitely worth the trip!
Came in for dinner today, was our first time here and Francesco was an amazing server! He made some awesome recommendations for food, and everything was delicious! Drinks were also so good! I definitely recommend and will definitely be coming back soon!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Restaurantji Recommends
Just had a great dinner with the wife and the service from Francesco was wonderful. All around awesome experience
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
I went to Symposium on Good Friday for wine and apps. They have half price wine on Fridays but our server said the manager took it away for the holiday. I find this so cheap and disgusting to make some more money. We left and went to another restaurant that had the same special and didn’t even think of taking it away for the one Friday holiday a year. I’ve been here in the past and it was decent but if they are going to nickel and dime it’s not worth going back. Give your money to an independently owned small business instead.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Our new breakfast spot! The last few times we’ve been, we have had the pleasure of Paul serving us! He is super friendly and very efficient with what he does. The food is always fresh and tasty.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went for breakfast today. Julie was awesome. My eggs were undercooked but, other than that everything was lovely. Best home fries in Guelph BY FAR! Thanks Julie! You were a busy lady and still did amazing for us ?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Amitha was excellent!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5