 huet Cuisine is the first solo project from Marc Thuet - a fourth-generation chef from Alsace, France - who has honed his culinary skills over many years working for a variety of venues, globally and locally, from the orchestral bliss of The Fifth and the exhibitionistic Centro Grill to the corporate stoves of the Rosewater Supper Club.
 A vast open 90-seat dining room redefines the space as pure restaurant; dark wood outlines the long bar, open kitchen and service areas. The sea of leather-bound chairs and pockets of semi-circular booths, however, makes it all a bit soulless, as if someone ordered the standard fine dining restaurant kit out of a book.
While the decor is hotel-ish innocence, it does nothing to frame the excellent French cuisine of the seasoned chef. With Thuet Cuisine, chef has found his utopia, which is to say each plate is as intricate and well-turned out as humanly possible. All the more credit belongs to the chef, who keeps the flavours strong and pure yet is not afraid to throw in a few Alsatian tricks to show what’s spectacular about the cuisine.
Happily, Thuet’s menu now exhibits a lighter touch. It's organized, for the resto-challenged, into manageable categories. In its purest form, Thuet is now a pleasant bistro, and creature comforts are elaborately displayed.
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609 King Street West, Toronto, ON
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7 Reader Reviews
Highly impressive when you first enter, but it's all downhill from there. They lost my reservation, made a mistake with our food orders, forgot the desert and still charged us. We were also served by a cocky arragant waiter. The menu is highly deceptive and be prepared to pay $$$ for the evening. Ridiculous. Overall, you pay for ambience and even that loses it's effect... P.S. don't expect to have dinner in under 3.5 hours - the service is very, very slow.
Robert Behr's Rating: 2 Stars |
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Saturday 8:30pm
Entering seems like a crashing the dying end of a temp-agency's x-mas party. Not even the either pretentious or unintentional nod to 'outsider art' can dispel the shitty 90's printshop vibe of the space. A sweaty waiter fails to up-sell you the tasting menu. Awesome bread. Appetizers (esp. the 'Lasagnette')are well received and our mood brightens. More of the cheapest ($65!?) wine. 45 min. pass. Entrees arrive and portions are tiny. The beef tenderloin is like rubber and the salmon are undercooked. Goofy pine needle hotplates arrive table-side briefly and awkwardly. Anticipation of the superior taste (and cost) of "line caught" fish and farm raised beef quickly give way to feeling duped. We pick away, but disappointment is universal. Dessert is abandoned and we dread the arrival of the bill. Freely poured and unsolicited bottled water figures heavily. Fuck Thuet.
Sven Jorgenson's Rating: 1 Stars |
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We were very excited to go to Thuet, but we were extremely disappointed with the quality of food and service. For a bill of 450 for two people we should have received 5 star service. It took 20 minutes to get cocktails and the white wine I drank with dinner was luke warm.
The food was not much better. My fiancee ordered steak and received an enormous Flintsone-like slab of bloody meat with a side of soggy fries. The black cod and lobster I ordered was barely warm and fishy.
We love going out to nice restaurants and will gladly pay premium prices for superior food and service, but at Thuet we left feeling like we had been had.
Anonymous_frequent Diner's Rating: 1 Stars |
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I had expected great things given the press that this venue has received, but was disappointed with our Sunday brunch. Breads and pastries were, as expected, excellent. We ate on the patio where service was very poor - could not get the server's attention to order for over 10 minutes, server did not bring water or ordered drinks until after the appetizers were almost finished, never got the coffee refilled and could not get server's attention for 10-15 minutes to get the bill. Food was mixed. Coconut shrimp was tasty but consisted of only one shrimp on a seafood salad. The dish should probably be renamed to reflect that it is primarily a seafood salad so coconut shrimp lovers will not expect several shrimp. The waffle and fruit was fresh and delicious. Our son ordered the kobe beef and egg. It was visually unappetizing and, although our son has a pretty adventurous palate, he did not care for the dish - admittedly, that could be put down to personal taste. My husband also had an egg dish (don't remember the name - perhaps eggs basques?) that he found just ok. I doubt we will be back to the restaurant but the breads are some of the best in the city.
Tipper's Rating: 2 Stars |
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I went there for summerlicious and the service was beyond bad. we waited for 30min to be seated while people went ahead of us, the hostess was disorganized, the waiter forgot or drinks and got the order wrong. Food was good but not worth the hassel. Complaints to the management made NO difference. Service took 2.5 hours, ridiculous!
Torontogirl's Rating: 1 Stars |
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Unfortunately, my experience Thuet was very negative. The person who actually made the reservations (not me) called approximately one month in advance to make reservations for noon on Mother's Day. She called back to confirm and was told that we were set for noon, but later received a call saying that our reservations had been moved to 1 pm. When she explained that she made the reservations a month in advance she was told that if she didn't take the 1 pm slot, the restaurant would not honor the reservation. Finally, we were instructed to arrive 5 minutes early or they'd give away the table.
We arrived at your restaurant at approximately 12:45. The gentleman who was handling the reservations couldn't find our name on the list. Finally, he found it and told us we had to wait. About 10 minutes later he again came to us and asked for our name and we repeated the process of him having trouble finding us on the list. Eventually we were seated (a bit after 1 pm, but in fairness not by much) and he offered the excuse that things were a bit hectic but the food would make up for it.
I have to say that contrary to our hosts assertions, I did not find that the food made up for all the earlier missteps. The smoked salmon w/ maple that I ordered was fishy. The bread basket was pretty good however. Our waiter was polite but was inattentive when it came to refilling coffee and cream. The 5 people at our table paid $30/each for brunch and the meal was certainly not commensurate with the cost (I don't mind paying for good food, but this place offered neither good food nor good service). All in all it was probably the most disappointing dining experience that I've had in Toronto, especially given that I had heard so many positive things about the restaurant.
Michael's Rating: 1 Stars |
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For lunch . Open concept . Slow customer day. Felt that some form of partitioning was required to make the tables seem more intimate. Service very attentive . Wine list quite expensive . Cassoulet and ( wife's )steak frites both excellent and plentiful . Olive loaf was bread making at its finest. Will return .
Gordon Fulthorpe's Rating: 4 Stars |
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Thuet Cuisine |
609 King Street West, Toronto, ON
416-603-2777
King West
French
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Wed. to Sat.: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
$$$$ (expensive)
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