The Boat opened in 1976 as a top-notch Portuguese seafood restaurant. It was rather successful for about 20 years until the mid to late 90's when many of the clientele began to move out of the neighbourhood. Joe D'Andrade took over the ailing business and hoped to bring it back to glory, but a new patronage was not to be found. The restaurant began scaling back it's staff and hours of operation until finally having to let go of it's initial concept. From the turn of the millenium, the Boat operated mainly as a Cantonese karaoke bar offering a finger-food menu with occasional event promotions taking place. More one-off events started surfacing in 2005 and Trevor Coleman stepped in to assist Joe in handling the event management at the Boat.more...See more text
Advertised opening time - 10:30 am - Did not open...
Advertised opening time - 10:30 am - Did not open til 11:00 am. We were the second table seated. We waited 40 minutes for our brunch to arrive.The waiter finally brought out meals with no apoloqy or excuse for the delay. We were appalled by the food - The scrambled egg & bacon combo was MISSING THE BACON!! It took over 5 minutes of waving to get the waiter's attention. He took the plate back to the kitchen. It took another 20 minutes for the SAME plate of food to be returned with the bacon. Of course, by this time the scrambled eggs, toast and potatoes were stone-cold. The eggs benedict looked lovely on the plate until I attempted to eat them. The eggs were barely cooked, the yolks were TOTALLY runny and I could hardly cut through the english muffin - it was that hard and stale. We complained to the waiter about the food, he jsut shrugged it off. When leaving we asked the hostess if we could speak to a manager, to which she replied that there is no manager on site on Sundays. WE WILL NOT BE BACK & WILL TELL OUR FRIENDS NOT TO BOTHER EITHER
