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About Ciociaro Sports Bar & Grill
This is one of those places you really hope you're going to like. You know the place: colourful characters standing by the bar, drinking beer, sipping lattes, conversing in a loud jovial manner; a table of fashion conscious women sitting on the terrace taking advantage of an unusually hot October night; and the sparse tables, adorned with families eagerly eating, watching the Montreal Canadians about to surprise everyone by beating Buffalo.
The restaurant is packed. Behind the front section of the bar, a young man feverishly makes espressos and cappuccinos, while at the end of the bar, a small kitchen is visible to all the seated patrons, and I watch two young bewildered looking lads making salads and cooking meat. Which brings us to the food, but wait; where's the waiter. I make eye contact with one and before I know it he appears right next to me smiling fretfully. I ask him what's good here to which he replies "everything, but our sandwiches are the best."
Ciociaro's doesn't offer much in its choice of food, but casual resto bars such as these don't need to. What's important in a place like this is to produce something outstanding. It may only be one stand-out item like the smoked meat at Schwartz's, or the subs at Caf Milano.
A very good was the Italian sausage sub ($8.00); the sausage is split open and cooked to perfection, complemented with eggplant, lettuce, tomato, cheese and onion. The lettuce was dressed with a vinaigrette which rounded out the flavour nicely.
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