SoloVera Restaurant and Lounge

The atmosphere is disgusting and the service is terrible. When my mother and I came here, the «waitress» was at the bar having a shot of liquor. We waited a while until I was ready to go. She came over stinking of booze. Apparently, even though they have items on the menu, doesn’t mean they serve it. There were 3 different items that they didn’t have. I ordered burger and fries and I have to say that it was delicious. The burger was cooked perfectly and the fries were homemade and I loved them. I would come back just for the burger.

I’m not surprised by the lack of star ratings here. This is a dive bar of dive bars; overflowing with their regular men drinking their beer at the bar, having conversations like their at home in their living room and wasting more money than they should on the slot machines. I didn’t even know this place existed, but, while hungry and not wanting «fast food» or to go anywhere further out of our way, we ended up here.
It wasn’t so bad. The server lady, manager, maybe? Was friendly — and fairly fast, but very informal; yelling at the guests from here little stand, loudly re-​asking what you had so she could make up your bill, you know.
We weren’t super hungry, but did want food — we ordered the munchie platter and the fried pepperoni (healthy, ya?) It was all super good. I don’t know if any of this was made in house, or out of a box, but it was good! Deep fried to perfection! The deep-​fried zucchini sticks were my favourite, the mozza sticks were a close second!
The menu items were very wallet friendly, the restaurant seemed clean. All and all better than what I had expected.

All I can say is stay away from this place. I ordered Chicken noodle and Lipton soup, cesar salad and pepsi, first off, the soup looked like it was congealing at the top, but it was like they placed all contents in a blender then served, if it could speak it would be asked to be put out of it’s misery.
The Salad’s leaves had a funny after taste, the croutons tasted like crumbly, tasteless ceral cubes, and the «dressing» tastes like over spiced and salted low quality faux kraft dressing.
also I’d like to note while waiting for my meal I had to sit there and listen to crappy music and the boozers right across from the tables singing «Drunken Donkey»

Really, nothing good to say about this place. Food barely passes muster, as does service.
I was hopeful about this place a few years ago when it was bought and rebranded Solovera but it slid downhill from a lunch counter type of a place where old ladies liked to have tea, to a dump where the women wear pyjama pants and have dirty hair, and the guys are missing a few teeth and stink like a pack of Export A’s.
I suppose the VLTs in the back room help attract quite a sketchy crowd so if that is your comfort zone, you will love it.

I hate rating places with a 1 star but this place really disgusted me.
First off I was already iffy on ordering breakfast as I had already eaten but I didn’t want to have my Aunt sitting there eating by herself. So I i asked the waitress for just a piece of toast and a poached egg. Simple enough right? Well apparently that means two pieces of toast heavily buttered, with two poached eggs in some kind of vinegar type liquid and home fries.
The eggs were almost revolting to be honest and I didn’t enjoy the toast as I’m not a big fan of butter or margarine. The walls looked like they were not washed in a while and the atmosphere just felt depressing.
I really hate to be so negative but I will never come back here. The only positive thing I guess would be that the waitress was very kind and nice.