Mirage Grill & Lounge

It gives me a feeling that the whole restaurant is almost empty during dinner hours. We order the Prix Fixe Menu for $ 30. The appetizer is Mixed Greens Salad mixed in balsamic vinaigrette dressing. The portion is big and the greens are fresh. The entrée we ordered Grilled Chicken Breast which is tender. The sauce with sundried tomatoes and spinach is average. I expect better than that. The salmon is a bit overcooked. The Chocolate Explosion Cake though is the best part of the meal. So I wonder why.
I then see people coming in the restaurants at around 9 to 10 p.m. No need to say, these people are not coming in for the dinner. They go for the desserts. When I look at the table behind us, everyone has a big plate of dessert. We order the Perfect Couple and the Waffle Cups, Not only the presentation is good but they are delicious. The portion is huge. Each costs equal or more than $ 10. It is worthwhile to try. At least for this night.
There is also solo dancer performance at night. The belly dancer will dance for about half an hour. She will invite guests to join her.
We have a very large party later on that requires advance booking. The coordination is so bad that after more than a week later, we got a reply saying dinner time may not be possible but indeed we want to book for lunch. This location cannot be confirmed. I am wondering why. Is this location going to be moved?

It was empty. SOO very empty on a Tuesday evening (I guess that’s why). They were closing at 12:00 PM (when the website and the time on the doors said 1 AM).
Service was okay.
However, nachos were horrible. Cheese wasn’t melted very well, and it just… wasn’t right.
Dessert was mediocre as well. My friends and I shared the «day and night» waffle (is that what it was called? It basically had the vanilla and chocolate ice cream together). For some reason, the waffle tasted stale, and the ice cream had large chunks of ice in them.
Unimpressed.

We frequent Café Mirage at Kennedy Commons, so we popped in for dinner on a Friday night.
My mom and I shared a pesto bowtie pasta with vegetables. As Rainie also reviewed, it’s edible but definitely not their forte. The asparagus soup came out piping hot but it tasted strangely sour and was heavily salted.
The dip and pita platter ($ 11) came with fresh carrot sticks, celery sticks, pita and salad with a light dressing. Everything with it was fine, except that my mom thought there was vinegar in the hummus. When I tried it, it burned my mouth; I had to explain to her that hummus is never made with vinegar. We were, in fact, served food that had gone rancid. We told the waiter, who kindly took it back and gave us baba ghanoush instead, but neither he nor the manager came out to apologize. You’d think you’d be embarrassed if you gave your customers something like that!
Definitely will not be coming back here. Music here is also terrible.

A very disappointing experience. Nothing like the café Mirage in the Kennedy Commoins (401 and Kennedy) or the café Mirage in Vaughn (hwy 7 and famous players drive, across from the Famous Players Colossus).
Although it has a trendy design and comfortable ambience, this café Mirage seeks to be an upscale eatery, which it falls to do.
Although the setting is nice, the actual food and drinks, coupled with the prices, are subpar.
Shared a few rounds of beer with my friends. No real special beers to be offered here, and saying the price is above average would be an understatement. Expensive beers would only be tolerate at the Bier Markt downtown, and at least those beers are special and unique.
The coffee is terrible, possibly even worst than terrible, but I’d rather not waste the energy to think of another word, since the watered down coffee was unable to supply me with any caffine what so ever. For a café, you’d think that coffee would be the most essential aspect of the resturants repetoire.
The food we ordered were finger foods, hoping to have a delicious snack with our drinks. First the chicken wings, but more likely described as Chick wings, as they were tiny. tiny tiny tiny. The flavour was nothing special, and for the price, a complete rip off. We also ordered sweet potato fries, which too, was a tiny order for a heafty price.
We dared not stay for dessert.
If you were thinking of going to this establishment, don’t. You’re better off going to the beer store or LCBO, picking up a six-​pack, get some frozen wings and snacks, and enjoy it at home. The beer will cost less, the food would taste better, and you would have saved yourself from a terribly disappointing night.

My rating of the restaurant is based on a recent dinner experience. My party ordered the farfelle, tortellini, and linguini dishes. We all agreed that pasta is not their strength. My linguini came with 4 pieces of shrimp, a bland cream sauce and some wilted spinach for $ 16. I’ve been to many restaurants in that neighbourhood and many of them are pretty good but this one is NOT the place to go for dinner especially pasta. Maybe that’s why it was empty when we went in at 6pm.
Service was friendly, although we had a wrong order, but it was taken care promptly. Décor is nice and chic. Bathrooms were trendy though lighting is very dark inside. And just a side bar, all but one stall had toilet paper available.
All this said, I do think this place would be nice for drinks and desserts. As we were getting ready to leave, I smelled some delicious intoxicating coffee brewing in the background. I was almost tempted to stay for that if my dinner wasn’t so disappointing. And I know their cakes are pretty good if they use the same supplier as the location in Scarborough. Overall, I would recommend this place for desserts and coffee after a meal with friends.

The menu here is pretty much the same as the other locations, with a good selection of crêpes, waffles, sundaes and cakes. Café Mirage also serves lunch and dinner food, but I’ve never eaten here other than for desserts. On this occasion, one of our party ordered the perfect couple: one side of the plate features a single scoop of small-​batch vanilla ice cream covered in fresh berries and strawberry purée. The other boasts a scoop of rich chocolate ice cream and sliced fresh bananas dripping with silky chocolate syrup. The crêpe is huge, so sharing is highly recommended. One notable feature is that some parts of the crêpe are crispy, almost like a biscuit, which some people really like. I personally prefer the usual soft texture.
I ordered the New York Cheesecake with a choice of purée, and I opted for blueberry. Although they garnished my cake with real blueberries, the «purée» didn’t taste like blueberries at all! I also didn’t like the flavour of the cake itself, as it didn’t taste very cheesecake-​like.

Café Mirage’s Richmond Hill location is brand new only opened for a week or 2.
Nice and chic decorated. There are 2 big sections at the back and in the front with big windows letting the sunlight filtering in. So it is nice no matter when you go all day breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Dropped by for lunch using Groupon. My waiter was really courteous, friendly and attentive. (+1 star) Sometimes you do get frowned on when using coupons or waitstaffs giving you a hard time. Here my coupon was more than welcome!
Bistro Burger ($ 10)
— meh… the meat patties really over seasoned. (TOO Salty!) The bun a little over toasted
— fries was really crispy. supermarket frozen standard…
Italian Sodas Mango Flavour ($ 4)
— Nice and refreshing. not overly sweet
Bistro Latte with Amaretto shot ($ 6)
— The best part of the meal, liquid dessert! Yummy!
In general I found the food a little overpriced… the food is meh… at least the one that I have. But Café Mirage might be a good place to drop by for a drink and chill out with your friends.