Pickle Barrel

I’ve been here for dinner once and it was nice. I ordered food for delivery, and on top of missing things in my order, that I paid for, guess what I found? An entire cigarette in my order for fish tacos! I am never eating here again!

Free coffee with early bird +1
Salad came after my meal?
Super salad was 6.99 at Vaughan mills 12.99 here???
I figured out I’ll just stick with the other two locations.
Breakfast was good.

Hostess seemed to hate her job and took exceptionally long time to seat us in an empty restaurant. Lots of tables left uncleared. Location seems new with lots of large screened televisions to watch the game. One note to make was this is the brightest/​most lit Pickle Barrel I’ve been to. Usually P. B has a dim, low-​light ambience to it, but this location was relatively smaller and more open.
Also there seemed to be one waiter servicing the whole restaurant that night, however he was very friendly to us nonetheless.
Food was mediocre especially for the price you pay.

Full of senior customers. The food was so so. You are welcome to sit as long as you want and chat with friends after finishing the meal.
The waiter and waitress were very very very friendly and patient.

The food experience overall was great, however the staff (both the hostess and the waitress) made the atmosphere feel very hostile. I’ve been to other locations where the employees have great customer service however the ones here gave me a bad experience.

Ordered pasta from here and the pasta was slightly uncooked. It was a lobster and shrimp pasta but it looked like stir fry because they added carrot, spinach and onions. The pasta sauce was watery too. Ordered sandwiches and they were small in size. Too pricey for the quantity and absolutely no quality.
This is the first and last time coming to this joint.

A place where 90% of the customers are seniors. They have renovated the place and you can definitely tell that it has moved up a notch in terms of class. The service was great! We asked about the complimentary salad that used to be a part of the main dish we ordered and even though we were told that they have discontinued it, and they don’t even offer Parmesan cheese because (manager’s quote: «cheese price has gone up») with pasta, they made an exception for our table and gave us free salads.
We had 3 different guys coming up to our table asking how the food is. Honestly, the food was good, but it was quite average. It can get really annoying when they keep asking the same question over and over, while you’re trying to talk with your friends and eat.
pros: free parking in the mall parking lot, good service, decent food, reasonable price
cons: can’t think of any, other than the fact that the vibe is too mellow. After all, it’s located inside the most boring mall I’ve seen (but for others that can be a pro), Also, there’s nothing on the menu that excites me enough to comment on (very average meals).

Food is edible. Some dishes are a miss, others a hit.
The problem with this place is with the management.
Service is slow and awkward, and management need to treat their female colleagues respectively.
Would not eat here again.

I had lunch here with 2 friends today. I ordered the chicken and beet salad because I LOVE beets. This salad however was horrible. The chicken was dry and tasteless, the beets were barely edible and even the greens were brown and limp. The dressing was good. To make matters worse the cost was $ 16.00 (which is what Milestones and Joey’s charge for Good salad). The ambiance was ok inside a vey tired mall. The service was friendly but inattentive. I won’t go back as the food is just too awful at any price.

Food was good.
Good portions.
The server gave me two sides to compensate the one I ordered being brought out late ! Yay!!!
Server was awesome, such a nice guy.
The elderly couple next to me weren’t pleased with anything.
I felt so bad for server, the hostess, and manager.
They made the hostess clean the table and chairs for like 5 minutes straight… the place was spotless to be honest.
The server was getting yelled at because they didn’t like the food.
They asked to see the manager.
The elderly lady put the piece of bread in the managers hand lol i dont know why.
I guess it was hard.
The manager resolved the issue and brought them a free appetizer but the old man got mad and shook his head.
Then they started telling the manager that this had been the worst pickle barrel they’d been to.
Ugh so annoying to be hearing that next to you, your whole dinner.
As for the elderly couple… I think they should stick to good old home cooking since they’d make perfect meals lol.

The worst dining experience I’ve ever experienced. So much so that I’m typing this review mid-​dinner.
Service from the start has been bad. Only received 1 menu between 2 people took forever for drinks and the waitress to take our order. (I don’t blame her though… she was overworked and the other waiters looked like they didn’t know what they were doing.)
Ordered poutine as appetizer, fried were so tough to chew that it seemed they were fried twice. They also forgot the bacon chive alioli.
The cobb salad was missing the dressing. Chicken ripped when it should diced. Overdry chicken. Asked the waiter for dressing and he never came back.
At least the seafood trio was good that it saved the dinner from being a total disaster.
I would seriously avoid this location. In fact, this location could have ruined Pickle Barrel for me.
PS. We talked to the manager and he took off the poutine and salad and offered us a dessert. That did made up for the dinner and we appreciated the manager’s consideration.

Visited this newly renovated Pickel Barrel only to have such a terrible and disappointing experience. If I had a choice to give zero stars, I seriously would.
My biggest issue here is that every person who entered the kitchen did not wear a hair net, beard net, or a hat/​cap or something to catch the hair (servers, prep staff, and even the manager). I could not believe my eyes when I saw a server with a full blown beard going in and out of the kitchen with plates of food on his arms. There should be a policy within any establishment that serves food to people that they have the option to either have food servers shave their beard or cover it with a beard net. And then there was my server who didn’t even tie her long hair up. This was most upsetting when we found a hair in my sister’s soup.
We started off the night thinking it was going to be a great meal as the restaurant went through some very nice changes (a very well needed renovation). It immediately went downhill when I noticed that our server was very negligent… it took her forever to get our order down. Even throughout the meal, she never once came to our table to ask us how everything was. We had to flag her down whenever there was something we needed. Our server was a filipino lady who spoke nicely to us, but that was it. It was very evident from my meal experience that food safety is not on the management’s mind because it did not seem like our server was properly trained on food safety practices. She handed us our dessert spoons with her thumb and fingers wrapped around the part we would scoop food with. I don’t even wanna know what goes on in the kitchen.
In terms of the food…
1. Small hair found in chicken noodle soup (as mentioned above).
2. Random raw soybean sprout found on my dad’s fish and chips plate. (if you have any food allergies, do not come here).
3. My mom’s Spanish Paella did not have any mussels, despite the description and photo on their menu. Our server did not even notice this… and had to be informed by us… Then she made some excuse that the kitchen most likely ran out of mussels and added more shrimp. It only came with 4 shrimp. After doing some research on the interernet, 4 is normally the number of shrimp they add in Pickel Barrel’s Spanish Paella. What a liar. She even did a little show and went to the kitchen to confirm, but really just lied to our faces. That is certainly not acceptable. We should have been informed ahead of time that there was firstly no more mussels and given the option to change our entrée… because really that dish is not worth 17.99 if you do not have mussels in it. As well, I wonder how many people they have done this too, because that’s really just false advertisement.
4. The Spanish Paella was suuuuper salty.
5. The brownie in the mini dessert (chocolate brownie mousse) was super dry and hard. This is the first time I’ve been somewhere where the restaurant failed on dessert… please tell me how can this be?!
6. There was foreign material sticking to the rim of my dad’s mini dessert cup.
All in all I felt that there was no quality control on the food or the service. We will give credit to the server for exchanging my mom’s plate with another dish. However, her initial suggestion was to switch to a soup/​salad instead of exchanging it with a comparably priced entrée… like come on now. The bill came to a total of $ 84, and for that kind of money, you kind of expect food that is safe to eat and to actually taste good.

The service was overall pretty bad. I went out with my family to use up a gift card and when it came to paying the bill, apparently the card couldn’t be used because of some damage to the magnetic strip. I find that hard to believe considering this was one of two cards I got from my company just this Christmas (everyone in my company got 2). I had already used one of them just fine and stored both safely. So we had to fully pay for a meal that we wouldn’t have bothered to go to if it weren’t for this issue. If I didn’t have a gift card, I my family wouldn’t have even ordered 3 course meals and 2 draft beers either. Nothing could be done on the restaurant level.
The table we got seated at was not level. Generally not good when trying to share food. Sheila, our server after getting our drinks took quite some time to get to our table to order our meals. The waters we got was in different glasses and did not have a lemon as other guests had. One of the beers had been spilled by the server as well. My ginger ale was in a smaller cup than my sisters. Her service seemed really rushed not even listening to our full orders; trying to quickly get away. Always also pushing recommended food without even mentioning extra costs.
All members of my family ordered a three course meal:
Panko basa
Spanish palla
Pan seared salmon
Fish and chips.
The starters came in 10 minutes but not at the same time. I noticed that my dad’s coleslaw did not come at all and I found out by asking that it was to come with the entre. The thing is that the fish and chip entre already comes with coleslaw. Were they trying to cut costs? We ended up switching to a salad.
The daily special beef barley soup was also out of stock so I had to go with chicken noodle soup. I noticed while drinking the soup that there was a hair in it. I did not mention it thinking not to make such a big deal over it.
The salad was OK except that the greens looked pretty wilted.
Throughout the service not once did our server check up on us.
Our entres came 15 minutes later and again not at the same time. My dad’s fish and chips came with a stray soy bean sprout. I noticed later that my bass came with less topping compared to other people. Our server failed to mention that they were out of mussels for my mom’s paella and so instead added more shrimp although did not ask us. The dish only had 4 shrimp and it was swimming in sauce. My sisters salmon was flaky and had a fishy odor. It did not seem very fresh and no roasted potatoes (just 2 boiled ones).
My mom couldn’t take eating her dish so we asked to replace it with the salmon my sister had. It was a world of difference compared to what my sister got. It was a bigger cut of salmon cooked fresh and moist on the inside. The potatoes were still boiled (also 2).
The mini desserts came next. Our server touched the spoon heads before giving them to us which is not good for food handling. My dad and I found some small papery stuff. On the outer glass rim for my dad and a thin shred on the mousse in mine. The brownie was not very good. Not soft sweet and buttery at all.
By the time we finished the dessert, I had to ask the manager for the coffee that still hadn’t come yet. The manager told us they would brew a fresh batch. My dad said the coffee seemed really weak.
So then at the end of the meal I find out that my gift card did not work and now, I will have to call the head office to fix the card and do this again another time.
My dad noticed on the way to the bathroom, the kitchen was not very clean ad all. We heard some dishes breaking while eating and it seems they had not cleaned up.
A pretty bad experience overall.

Last week thursday 2÷12÷15 breakfast
They’ve «modernized (?)» updated the décor +1
I got the filipino waitress (thank god) the 2 white servers were busy talking and playing with phones
Service +1 got lucky, good waitress. Was taken care of, numerous check ups, refills. Fast, friendly, polite, pointed out specials.
Food, +1 it was breakfast, but good above expectations (see promenade review)
Price +1 fair but cheaper than vaughan mills
I would recommend and repeat, if i could get same service and food

Do not eat here. Food was sub sub par. I had the bbq chicken that were as hard as hockey pucks and just slightly tasted better. I swear that it was left over from the lunch menu and kept warm till it dried out from the heat lamps either from lunch time or the previous day. I will never eat at this location again.

Way too noisy, service is sub par, food was Meh… Go here only if you have too. Never have a good exerpeiece at pb … Save your money go to mcd

The service was terrible. We went on a Sunday Morning so it was not busy.
We must have waited 25 minutes before someone even took our drinks order so we gave both food and drink orders when they came by. After that, it was a further 15 minutes before we received our drinks and then what must have been 10 later until we received our food.
Once we had finished we was left sat there for another 30 minutes before we had the chance to ask for the bill, then what must have been another 15 minutes before we got it.
It’s a shame because I really enjoyed my breakfast. I have the hat trick, three eggs, sausage, bacon and pea meal with pancakes and these awesome potato fritter things. Everything tasted great and my eggs where made perfectly.
I just hope this place one day matches the quality of the kitchen to the quality of service.

Packed with old peeps, I felt really odd walking in. Still decided to check it out since I’ve heard good things. The menu features an assortment of choices and it was difficult to decide between the Sundried Tomato Burger or the Fish and Chips. Asked the waiter which was better and would recommend. He told me the burger was best in regards to calories. I didn’t quite remember (must be getting senile already in my seat) asking him that in specific but I kinda felt that was rude from a complete stranger.
Regardless, I went with the healthier choice being just over 600 calories! The Sundried Tomato Burger looked aesthetically pleasing to the eye and featured an array of flavour. The goat cheese spread balanced out the spice in the burger and the sweetness of the tomato. Very nice, but I’m not interested in visiting again. Perhaps when I’m 60?
Each star will represent each element I enjoyed in my meal today. The iced cappuccino also helped.

Where to even start… in spite of the string of 1-​star reviews here, this place is still packed (mostly with senior citizens who probably don’t read Unilocal).
The service was friendly, slow, and forgetful. We even had to ask for cutlery, napkins (twice) and to reconfirm our order. I think our order even forget to add the fruit as stated on the menu. The prices weren’t that cheap (like $ 5 for a simple matzo ball soup).
It’s difficult to stay mad at the servers because they seem to be cheerfully trying to work with what they’re dealt with. The guests are forgiving because even with all the mess, they’ll probably be back again next Sunday.
I had the three eggs breakfast. The challah bread was just ordinary sliced bread, the coffee tasted like cigarettes, the potato latkes were shaped like dry potato balls (not pancake style), the water had a filmy oil with crumbs floating it in, and the eggs were pooling in oil. I still ate it because it’s exactly the Sunday morning breakfast that you have when you’ve been out late and will eat anything the next day.
Oh, the clincher was finding an elastic band in our order of bacon and eggs!

It’s…well, it’s a Pickle Barrel. That used to mean something else, when I was growing up — in high school, Pickle Barrel were an easy, go-​to solution for people who have differing tastes. It made everyone happy. Then, one day maybe 10 years ago, I remembered ordering my beloved Greek salad and it came with basically lettuce and nothing else. For $ 11.99. And I knew something terrible had happened.
This Pickle Barrel is no different. I ordered a turkey-​avocado club — their words, not mine! A «club» suggests layers of bread, but this was just your ordinary sandwich between two slices of bread. Instead of having real turkey, it was slimy luncheon meat, and the avocado was so minuscule I actually asked the server if there was avocado on the sandwich, he said, «Oh, no, I guess not,» took it back, opened the sandwich up, noticed the one mm of avocado and brought it back saying, «Oh, no, it is there.» This sandwich that would have cost me $ 1.50 at home cost me $ 10.99.
We asked for waters three times before he finally brought us any. Really, there’s no draw to this place at all, except for holding on nostalgia (i.e. a great place to bring older people who don’t want to try anything new).