Mezza Notte Trattoria

Friendly helpful staff. Lots of smiles and recommendation.
We Had the antipasti plates, selection of various breads with dipping oils and butter.
Penne with seafood and my favorite veal Marsala with grilled shrimp. Nice selection of beers. Kids went with pasta and pizza.
This is a medium price dinning house.
Thirteen people ate and drank beer n coffees. Bill came to $ 500 plus tip.
Again. Great attentive service.

Not so good food comparing to price, pizza was soft and dough in the middle and staff are just not ready for the place.
Owner/​manager is the only person who is running the place.
To me This type of organizing and food is not acceptable for an Italian place.

Came here dinner around Christmas time to catch up with my cousin. Reservations were made a week before. The restaurant was busy and there were only 2 servers. We sat down but they toally ignored us for 15 minutes, didnt ask us if we wanted any drinks or bread. Until we tried to flag one of them down.
Finally they bought us some bread, a nice selection but it was really cold. Would be nice if they warmed it up.
We ordered mussels (but they ran out) so we got calamari instead, pappardelle, tortelinni and pizza cosentina. The food was excellent and the portions were good. I loved that they had a selection of homemade pasta.
When we got out bill it looked a bit high, they forgot to take the mussels off and we had to get them to correct it.
Overall horrible service but excellent food. Hopefully the service will be next time.

Italian food. pasta la vista baby!
The scenery here is very mature; almost to the point where I felt kind of guilty for having on my snap back hat. However, there is a bar and a TV playing sports. So I guess they are trying to cater to every age.
TBH– I am very generic when it comes to Italian food– so half the time I had to google image what I wanted– Ordered the bruschetta and much like everything on the menu it was on the $$ side for what the value is. However– their entrée’s were fairly moderately priced. I ordered the rigatoni della nonna and asked my server to make it very spicy. He answered in his italian acccent– which makes the place feel a little bit more authentic. However the indian chef knew exactly what I was talking about– woaah! he made it fire. Delicious hot fire!
Thankfully, I had my friend’s penne veronese to sample– which my mind only allows me to translate as really really good mac and cheese with mushrooms in it. Helped stabilize my burning tongue and the creamy cheesiness was delicious as well.
They have a nice little bread basket that they serve. Overall the price is on the higher end. However experience and quality wise– SURE!
give it a go for some authentic italian food!

They offer many options even for a picky eater. Their pasta was very flavorful. The interior is a little dim and old, but their food does not disappoint. I would recommend this place if you were craving a good Italian meal.
–CY

Service was impeccable — fresh ground pepper and fresh parmesan ready on standby, water refilled without even asking.
I was worried because of the reviews, but after going I feel like the restaurant got a bad rap because of guest’s expectations before they even step in to the restaurant. The place doesn’t have a cool hipster atmosphere like places downtown. Neither does it offer a world class chef curated menu that you’d take Anthony Bourdain to in his Toronto stopover. It is not a dive either — and the food isn’t the ‘comfort food’ type where it is loaded with grease and whole-​flavouredness (*ahem* Dantes *ahem*).
What it does provide is a casual, healthy approach to Italian food.
I think the restaurant is best categorized as ”neighbourhood italian fare’, similar to what you’d find at your health-​conscious Italian sister’s place (not grandmas)??
Dishes aren’t over-​seasoned or greased up. It was simple and yummy. I can tell they make their own tomato sauce. It reminded me of simple food in Italy.
I liked it, I’d probably go back again.

There aren’t many Italian restaurants in the area so if you want a decent Italian meal this is the place to go. The spaghetti cartoccio and risotto di mare are pretty good, and if you feel like pizza they have some very nice toppings to choose from. The target audience seems to be adults but they get quite a few families. Overall not a bad place, and given the lack of other options in the neighbourhood I would definitely recommend.

We just had a fantastic dinner at Mezza Notte. Since I noticed that there have been some mixed review, I wanted to make sure that I posted a review. Several things stood out:
1) Bread basket is AMAZING! Such a pleasant surprise. We were expecting a typical bread basket of white bread and butter, but instead we got spiced tomato focaccia bread, garlic buttery focaccia bread, and yummy Italian bread.
2) Dan was a fantastic waiter! He put our pizza in right away to make sure it was timed to be an appetizer. We had great service the whole time.
3) Vanilla tartufo was incredible! Perfect temperature of the ice cream, not too hard or too melty.
4) Our main courses were delicious and the pasta was cooked well.
We are definitely coming back! Great experience and reasonably priced too!

I was hesitant to go here because of the inconsistent and mixed reviews, but they rocked our dinner and I was very happy with the whole night.
We had a large group — 18 — so we booked the room at the back which worked very well for us. Service all night was friendly, fast and accurate, and I was very impressed by the efficiency of the staff. The wine list is small but respectable, and we were able to find some good selections at reasonable prices.
We started off with an assortment of appetizers — the carpaccio, bruschetta, fried calamari, the rustic della casa platter, and the caprese salad. We gobbled it all up pretty quickly, and nobody had any complaints, so the first course was a success.
The entrees were as good or better. I had the veal chop, which was really good. Also getting very positive reviews were the seafood risotto, the grilled mixed seafood, the pizza, heck, pretty much everything we had. The tiramisu also went over really well, but I was too stuffed to have any dessert by then.
This place may be inconsistent, but they were on the night we visited, and they fully deserved their rating. Yes, I will be back.

I originally wanted to get the PAPPARDELLE with lamb ragu but the kitchen was still cooking the lamb and won’t be ready for another hour. So I had to change my decision and went with the SPAGHETTI CARTOCCIO — squid ink spaghetti, mussels, clams, tiger shrimp, calamari with white wine, tomato sauce. The pasta came in a parchment bag and it was opened right in front of me, that was pretty neat. The squid ink pasta was homemade, it was very chewy. There was a lot of mussels but the meat was tiny, the calamari was very soft, not tough to chew. The tomato sauce was very tasty. Everything mixed together was ok, I’ve had better pasta dishes so I was not especially impressed with the dish. Maybe also because I had my heart on the lamb ragu so it didn’t add up.
The service was good though, and the place was getting packed later on the dinner shift so it is a popular place.

As others have already pointed out in previous reviews, everything is there for this restaurant, except for food quality… and also maybe that it is located in a sketchy plaza with a dirty looking sex shop. As for the food, I’d rather get a quarter size of their portions and more flavour. The dishes were either overly salty or incredibly bland. The pasta was cooked very well, but it lacked what some would describe as passion and love for the food itself. My seafood fettuccine had seafood in it, but it just didn’t have the seafood flavour. Perhaps the seafood was from frozen, or the cream sauce didn’t have any seafood juices in it.
The service was great though, she managed a large group of us and helped us pack our food and out the door in a timely manner. It made for an acceptable turn-​around time for a lunch outing during work hours.

OMG the chicken fettuccine Alfredo here is to DIE for. You can taste the richness and creaminess of the fettuccine sauce. It comes with 2 cheesy bread sticks, a great large portion!

Made an order of seafood order for delivery. Took almost two hours to come. Food was dry clumpy and disgusting. Will never order again from this place. They should be embarrassed to put out meals like that. Enjoy my 60 dollars…

Visited on a Sat night, we had a group of 13. We were seated in the private room, it felt like we had the place to ourselves it was so quiet. They were even able to accommodate a semi-​crying 2 year old. It was earth hour that night, so they dimmed the lights. I got the Pizza Genovese which was wonderful. We stayed a good 2 hours +, thanks Mezza Notte for a wonderful evening! Only thing that was a hassle is the tiny parking lot in front that only fits about 8 cars. I took the TTC so it’s a good 5−10min walk to North York Centre Station.

I WAS a loyal long time customer of Mezza Notte, until tonight. I made a reservation in advance for New Year’s Eve. Upon arrival I was told extremely rudely by both the hostess and the owner that «my name was not on their list». I told them I had made a reservation in advance so obviously there was some sort of mix up. Instead of apologizing and trying to make the situation right like they should have if they had any decent customer service skills, they again told me my name wasn’t on their list and looked at me like I was lying about my reservation. They then walked away and talked amongst themselves for a few minutes. When the hostess returned she waved at a table right in front of the door and said this is all I have, then walked away without actually seating us. Talk about rude!
It gets better though. When I asked to have my pasta with just tomato sauce, no cream, because I’m lactose intolerant, I was told I would have to pay a substitution charge. Yes, because of an allergy I had to pay extra.
This was probably one of the worst customer service experiences I’ve ever had. I used to order take out from Mezza Notte a few times a month and visit regularly. That’s definitely not happening anymore!

Portion, check. Service, double check. Food… meh.
I got the whole wheat fettuccine Siciliana, and for $ 20 (tax +tip) the portion size is good.
The food is pretty bland though, regardless of the plentiful ingredients (green/​red peppers, mushrooms. zucchini, eggplant and chicken.) Had it been more flavourful (or not-​bland, maybe?) it would have been perfect, but this will not be somewhere I would go again.
The service was good though! But then again I went at three oclock in the afternoon and was the only one there: P

I’ve walked by this Italian place so many times, I just had to give them a shot.
Looking in from the outside, this place always appeared very dark and gloomy, and when we were seated inside, the interior is pretty much the same. It was pretty empty on a Saturday night, with a few lone diners. We were quickly seated near the entrance, and our waiter named the specials for the day (none of which were pasta).
We ordered fairly quickly and let our waiter know that we were trying to catch a movie by 9:50PM.
Here’s a detailed timeline:
8:10 Arrive at Restaurant
8:15 Ordered our Food
9:10 Waiter informs us he FORGOT to put in our order but ensures we will still catch our movie
9:20 Food Arrives (The pasta wasn’t bad, but nothing amazing)
9:30 After gobbling down our dinner at record speed, we ask for the bill
9:35 Bill arrives and we quickly pay for it. but wait why is the bill so expensive?
We realize we had just paid for someone else’s bill. We bring this to the attention of our waiter, who offered to give us back $ 5 which was the difference of the two bills.
I find it disappointing that no discount was offered on our original bill and that so many mistakes were made without apology.
The only thing good about this meal was their complimentary bread/​focaccias, but I’m not going through that again just for bread.

The first time I dined at Mezza Notte Trattoria (MNT), it was a casual fine dining restaurant, with many pricey main entrees to choose. It simplified its menu and removed the pricey mains a few years ago. Therefore, I now consider it a lower-​end casual fine restaurant.
The atmosphere and décor are what lifting it to the «fine» level. The food is a different story. MNT serves mainly pizza and pasta, plus a few veal and chicken entrees. The pizzas are okay but not much better than the gourmet pizzas from boutique pizzerias, such as Mama Pizza and My Little Pizzeria. The pasta with red sauce is tasty but the one with rose sauce is average.
In conclusion, MNT is an okay restaurant. It is a good, old, stable neighborhood restaurant that you can come every month for weekend dining. I’d like to compare it to Swiss Chalet, Pickle Barrel or East Side Mario. It is unsurprising but reliable, like an old charming pal.

This is a nice Italian restaurant, personally I don’t know why everyone else is giving bad reviews, I guess they just don’t know good food when they see it!
The Focaccia is defiantly the best part of coming to eat here, it’s sooo good and also very addictive!
The Veal Parmigiana has been excellent lately! Its so soft, you don’t need a knife to cut into it, it just falls right apart and melts in your mouth! The sauce is delicious, and don’t forget the cheese, lots and lots of cheese on the veal!!!
The meal is also very big, you could share with another person!
The best part is, its in walking distance to me, so when I have a craving for some nice veal, I don’t have to go hinting around the city as it seems to be hard to find!

Bleh. Had I known this had only 2.5 stars on Unilocal,I would’ve passed when a coworker recommended this place for lunch. Sad non-​Yelpers. Woman got a new IPhone from work so I hope she follows my advice on getting the Unilocal app. Anyhow, onto the review.
Bread was fantastic and in fact probably my favorite part of the meal. My breaded veal with peppercorn was not working for me at all but the veggies weren’t bad. They also got a new waitress serving us so there was a lot of back and forth with questions.