Trio Restaurant & Lounge

Serves breakast, lunch and dinner. No complaints about the breakfast buffet, plenty of options.
I ordered the Cobb salad with steak on top and it was delicious. Waiter was attentive and friendly. Perfect after a long day at work and just want to stay local.

It’s a bit tricky to review this place. I wanted to like it really badly, and was initially impressed, then got majorly let down, but at the end was happy again. Holy geez that sounds like the script to a Hollywood movie!
We went here for our anniversary and I wanted to introduce my wife to a new restaurant. The place is chic and fancy in an elegant understated way. No crazy décor, no funky exposed brick or any other hipster crap, just high ceilings, cool dark colours, and spacious surroundings. It also helped that on a Sunday night we were the only ones eating.
I ordered the Indonesian grilled shrimp, which was excellent. Be warned, this is essentially a SALAD dish (which is overpriced at $ 20), but the 3 oversized shrimps I got were absurdly succulent and delicious. Cooked just right, fresh, with flavours that penetrated into the meat itself. I scoff when people write «Indonesian-​inspired» during most times, but this one got it right. The salad itself was… salad. But the oil-​based dressing was tasty and not overpowering.
My wife ordered the seafood risotto. It started off promising, with a nice tomato-​ey taste and good quality rice. But then came the shock of the evening: they put in frozen scallops instead of fresh ones. And another WORSE shock: one of the scallops was still half frozen. It was a rocky lump that I’m sure can injure a raccoon if I decided to chuck it at one.
To be fair though, when we raised this concern the server apologized and offered to replace the dish with any other one that we wanted for free. We ended up getting the half-​chicken, which turned out to be the BEST grilled chicken I’ve ever had. This is a MUST TRY. The chicken is done just right, extremely succulent and tender. The sauce it came with was also divine, creamy and a little rich. This dish was a winner.
I think we’ll be back to give the place a try again. The chefs clearly have talent here, but the execution for that one dish was below par. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and try maybe one more time. Excellent service, excellent peaceful ambience, all the things that I like.
Key lime pie for dessert was a bit overly sweet though, so maybe I’ll skip on that next time.

Food was great. Had the mushroom/​avocado bruschetta to start. It was full of flavour.
Followed up with the veal shank that was equally tasty.
Great atmosphere/​ambiance. Especially considering its location.
The only reason I gave it a 4 star instead of 5 star is because the service was slow despite the restaurant not being busy at all.

UYE!!! Thank you Wayne and Jennifer K for the invite!
Now, I don’t typically make a habit of going to restaurants in hotel, but I have to say Trio did impress me a lot with us arriving here for Savour York Region, which is the GTA version of Winterlicious.
The price was $ 25 dollars for dinner — quite reasonable and food was quite good. I’ll try to break down what I ate — the Caesar salad was good and crisp, maybe not the best I ever had.
The chicken I had was quite good; nice and moist with the right hit of crispness in the skin to make me go happy-​eyed.
The dessert was probably knocked the whole thing out of the park — cappuccino Cheesecake was what I look for in a cheesecake; light and fluffy, and it wasn’t as heavy a brick as some other cheesecakes places that I know.
The company was wonderful, and the unofficial entertainment via a live violinist — who was performing pop songs and classical stuff for another event in one of the more private rooms.
Service was good, they split our bills without asking and kept an attentive but unobtrusive service; which is hard to do at even at the best restaurants.

Venturing outside of my comfort zone of Toronto is always a gamble, but with the guidance of fellow Unilocalers I knew I’d be in good hands to take a chance on some 905 noshing at the Trio Lounge for the Savour York region Festival.
Located inside the Vaughn Novotel, the Trio Lounge was a welcome oasis of a restaurant in a wasteland of strip malls and home reno/​industrial compounds. The restaurant itself is immaculately clean and looked as though it‘d recently undergone a modernised renovation.
The portions of food here are plentiful considering that the prix fixe meal cost a mere $ 25 as part of Savour York Region’s restaurant promo. It was a much welcome change from the Lillipution servings we’ve sadly become accustomed to from the Winterlicious meals in Toronto.
My order began with the BBQ Soy-​Chili Rubbed Chicken Satays with candied ginger, peanut sauce with green mango slaw. There was no hint of the of the mentioned candied ginger, however the mango slaw was delightfully refreshing! For the entrée I feasted on poultry yet again, I’d been eating Vegan the week before so felt it was due time to get my heme iron back on. The Thyme Roasted Chicken Supreme with Chipotle-​Pecan Sauce, Select Vegetables and Roasted Fingerling Potatoes did not dissappoint as the chicken was pleasantly succulent and the skin was the right consistency, right between crisp and chewy.
With such lively company, the dinner became so much more enjoyable as there was much heated banter about the state of current affairs in the Nba, while in the background we had the strains of GnR’s «Sweet Child of Mine» playing courtesy of the violin music reception playing down the hall. My apologies to the surrounding diners who’d endured my tempered outbursts of «Lebron James is a jerk!!!» But I only speak the truth! :D
Dessert options were two fold, either in the form of Crème Brule or Cheesecake. Fellow diners beamed about how good the cappuccino and raspberry cheescakes were. While the Coconut & Tahitian Vanilla Crème Brulee proved interesting on paper, the execution was mediocre with a bit too charred of a sucre crust and a dense yolky custard.
Our wait service was very cordial and with our consideration in mind, the staff had our cheques all neatly divied-​up in seperate bills for all seven of us that dined, which was a nice touch!
Trio Lounge’s credo reads as «Food, Wine, Pleasure» and I’m pleased to say that Trio delivered objectively well on it’s promises.

Reasons of choosing Trio @Novotel Vaughan is Three-​parts.
1. SavourYork has choosen Trio to hold their Kick-​off Event multiple times.
2. To let the citizens of GTA know there’s a world outside of Toronto core.
3. Many dismiss Hotel Restaurants as a possible night-​out Dining option.
Welcome all to the first of many future UYE SavourYork Dinners outside Toronto.
The Group of 7 who attended made the Meal even better. We were the Life of Trio.
More than Life, we provided action, entertainment and play-​by-​play commentary.
A group that’s not shy to disturb-​the-​peace, exactly my kind of crew. ;D
2-​Staffer on the night made the Service sporadic, though pleasant when available.
The Décor and misc. aesthetics are not as polished as the image they set forth.
As we went during the SavourYork event, we all chose the $ 25.00 Prix-​Fixe.
Looks like the Kitchen is good at Local/​Western/​Italian more than Exotic flavours.
All things considered, the Price/​Portion ratio was quite satisfying reasonable.
Good
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Pan Roasted Stuffed Beef & Veal Lollipops (APPETIZERS)
The Trio Caesar Salad (APPETIZERS)
Thyme Roasted Chicken Supreme (ENTRÉES)
Chef’s Daily Cheesecakes (DESSERT)
Meh
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Coconut & Tahitian Vanilla Crème Brulee (DESSERT)
Looks Good (but did not consume)
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Chef’s Daily Soup Creation[Clam Chowder](APPETIZERS)
Seafood Risotto with Italian Smoked Bacon (ENTRÉES)
«Wellington County» Top Sirloin (ENTRÉES)
Looks Meh (but did not consume)
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BBQ Soy-​Chili Rubbed Chicken Satays (APPETIZERS)

Savour York Region 2012 give me an opportunity to try out Trio Restaurant & Lounge in Novotel Vaughan.
I usually don’t go eat inside a hotel restaurant… I don’t know why… but I always think something is lacking and restaurants in hotels are usually meh… unless you are talking about boutique hotels!
Intermission (drinking wine)
The Portion here is great for a prix menu. We ordered everything aside from the veggie option (none of us feel like having whole wheat linguine) and all A-​OK. All the orders are regular portion, I ended up sharing with my Unilocal friends.
Intermission (sipping wine)
service is excellent! And waitstaffs want to do separate bills for us even before we request that!
$ 25 prix menu is excellent value! We were full and happy … maybe too happy!